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William Blake and His circle: record Books,5 essays, for including editions and catalogues including reviews A checklist of Publications and 6 BB 1,406 573 254 3,218 595 Discoveries in 2010 BBS 1,010 354 123 4,069 177 Misc.7 1,951 By G. e. Bentley, Jr. 1992-93 54 21 15 279 62 1994 50 16 5 234 84 with the assistance of Hikari Sato 1995 56 22 12 239 74 for Japanese publications 1996 37 14 10 160 136 1997 75 29 11 135 178 1998 69 32 6 233 59 Editors’ notes: Illustrations to the checklist are available in 1999 46 21 3 235 71 the online version of the article, which is also fully searchable 2000 73 13 12 152 56 . Addenda and corrigenda to Blake records, 2nd ed. (2004), 2001 57 23 13 181 175 now appear online. They are updated yearly in conjunction 2002 52 26 6 208 45 with the publication of the checklist. 2003 50 17 8 205 47 2004 31 8 6 153 81 2005 43 9 6 139 79 Blake Publications and Discoveries in 2010 2006 110 48 11 237 41 Voting 2007 118 70 17 336 100 ’s father, James, voted in 1774, 1780, and 1784, 2008 193 68 54 330 107 his brother John voted in 1784 and 1788, and his partner, 2009 122 32 30 621 239 James Parker, voted in 1788 and 1790,1 but apparently “the 2010 180 78 13 313 78 2 poet himself never voted,” though he was eligible to do so. Totals 3,832 1,474 615 11,677 4,435 This negative evidence has been used to reinforce the argu- ment that Blake was aloof from practical politics, despite the reprints fiery political strain in his writings and drawings. However, There is a flourishing industry of republishing works related Blake did vote, in 1790.3 Perhaps his political activism should to Blake whose chief virtue is that they are (deservedly) out of be reappraised. print. The chief practitioners seem to be Kessinger Publishing, Thomas Owen Nabu Press, and General Books.8 Note that the Kessinger edi- Thomas Owen, the boy whom Blake took as an apprentice tions are mere digital reprints, with, as they admit, frequent in June 1788,4 was probably born in 1775. His possible work defects. I have seen none of these reprints and confess my under Blake’s direction on the plates for Salzmann’s Elements initial incredulity about some, such as the four separate pub- of Morality (1790-91) is examined by robert N. essick (see lications of 18-44 pages into which emily Hamblen’s On the Salzmann in Part III). Minor Prophecies of William Blake (1930) has been divided. However, as each has an ISBN assigned, I take it that they were The non-english languages recorded for Blake studies in not only advertised but published. 2010 are croatian, Danish, estonian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portu- guese, romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, note the number of works published abroad in 5. The books include reprints. english: in Denmark, Germany, India, and Japan. 6. One hundred reviews in BB were published before 1863. 7. The miscellaneous sources include the essick collection, the on- line versions of the Times [london] and the New York Times, reviews in Philological Quarterly (1925-69), and reviews in Blake before 1992, when 1. BR(2) 736, 742. I began reporting reviews in this checklist. 2. BR(2) 736, I am sorry to say. 8. The author is often given as “William Blake, Jr. PhD,” but it is not 3. See the addendum to BR(2) 59, online. clear whether the oddity originates with the publisher or with the agency 4. See the addendum to BR(2) 48, online. such as Google Books which is reporting it.

4 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Blake’s Writings crosby and robert N. essick identified for the first time prints of Blake’s lost miniatures of romney in the European Maga- The most exciting discovery was the copy of The Mystical zine (1803) and Hayley’s Life of Romney (1809).14 The evidence Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus, translated by Thomas taylor is so plain that it is difficult to understand why they were not (1787), with annotations newly identified as Blake’s by Philip identified long ago. This increases by a third the number of and Joseph cardinale.9 This provides a short but fascinating Blake’s miniatures which have been reproduced. marginalium by Blake and extensive markings of the text, chiefly underlining. The learned and tendentious Platonist Catalogues and Bibliographies Thomas taylor has been fairly reliably associated with Blake in anecdotes10 and more speculatively as a major source for his Newly recorded here are dealers’ catalogues of 1843, 1864, ideas.11 The discovery of Blake’s annotations to the Hymns of 1878, 1879, and 1883 (2), which help to establish the prov- Orpheus, the only direct evidence that he had read taylor, will enances of numbers of Blake’s works. justify a new investigation of the association and connection There were modest exhibitions in 2010 of Blake’s works at of taylor and Blake. the e. J. Pratt library of Victoria University in the Univer- Blake’s long-lost letter of 7 August 1804, known previously sity of toronto and at the Morgan library and Museum. The only through catalogue snippets, was acquired in 2009 by Morgan’s formidable publicity machine secured numerous robert N. essick and masterfully published in full in 2010 by reviews and notices. Mark crosby and essick in Blake. It is an important letter, and the essay about it records a number of significant discoveries Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies related only rather distantly to the text. The perennial popularity ofSongs of Innocence and of Expe- two of the workhorses of Blake scholarship are worthily rience is demonstrated by newly recorded editions of 1988 (in represented here in robert N. essick, “Blake in the Market- Macedonian), 2009 (in Spanish), and 2010. And Blake’s reviv- place, 2009,” and G. e. Bentley, Jr., “William Blake and His ing reputation in the years before Gilchrist’s epoch-marking circle: A checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2009” biography is indicated by newly recorded printings of poems (see Blake 43.4 and 44.1 in Part VI). in 1839, 1845, 1861, and 1862. A surprising number of papers on Blake were published in collections of essays: in Blake; Queer Blake, ed. Helen P. Blake’s Art/Commercial Engravings Bruder and tristanne connolly; Interfaces; Blake in Our Time, ed. Karen Mulhallen; and Its Legacies, ed. ralla One of Blake’s largest paintings, an inn sign made in 1812 Guha Niyogi; Editing and Reading Blake, ed. Wayne c. ripley for chaucer’s tabard or talbot Inn in Southwark, was for the and Justin Van Kleeck; and Tate Papers. first time identified and reproduced in 2010.12 Alas, under Among the more permanently valuable of these essays are outdoor exposure for two-thirds of a century the picture de- Angus Whitehead’s “Mark and eleanor Martin, the Blakes’ teriorated so extensively that at the end of its lifetime its fea- French Fellow Inhabitants at 17 South Molton Street, 1805- tures were virtually indistinguishable, and when the building 21” (see Blake 43.3 in Part VI) and his “‘Went to see Blake— ceased to be an inn the sign was probably abandoned. The inn also to Surgeons college’: Blake and George cumberland’s sign, as recorded in contemporary engravings, is disconcert- Pocketbooks” (see Blake in Our Time, under Mulhallen in ingly different from Blake’s familiar heroic art, and most Blake Part VI). Whitehead is making wonderful discoveries about students are likely to be made uneasy by it if not incredulous Blake’s biographical context. of its connection with Blake. two other essays in Blake in Our Time are particularly valu- Beginning about 1800, Blake made a number of miniatures able. In 1983, Joseph Viscomi and Thomas V. lange first re- for Hayley and his friends, but some have been lost.13 Mark ported that two prints in America (B) were not Blake’s origi-

9. “A Newly Discovered Blake Book” (see Part V and Blake 44.3 in George romney untraced Part VI). The taylor volume has been in the Bodleian library since 1928. (self-portrait) (1801) 10. BR(2) 414, 500, 530. William Hayley (1801) Not in Butlin (see BR[2] 107); 11. See especially George Mills Harper, The Neoplatonism of William untraced and unreproduced Blake (chapel Hill: University of North carolina Press, 1961) and Kath- William cowper Misses cowper leen raine, Blake and Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, (after romney) (1801) 1968). 12. See Bentley, “Pictura Ignota,” in Part VI. William cowper Ashmolean 13. Blake’s known miniatures are: (after romney) (1801-04) Mrs. Hayley (1801) untraced and unreproduced Thomas Butts (1801?) British Museum Johnny Johnson (1802) Mary Barham Johnson Mrs. Butts (1809) British Museum George romney untraced Thomas Butts, Jr. (1809) British Museum (self-portrait) (1801) 14. “‘the fiends of commerce’” (see Blake 44.2 in Part VI).

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 5 nals but imitations15 so skillful that they had been taken as mances, pillows, playing cards, podcasts,21 poems about Blake, genuine by generations of Blake scholars. In his festschrift es- portraits, postcards, posters and pictures,22 recorded readings say, “two Fake Blakes revisited; One Dew-Smith revealed,” and singings,23 refrigerator magnets, stained-glass windows, Viscomi demonstrates with his customary brilliance that the stamps (postage and rubber), stickers, sweatshirts, t-shirts,24 inserted plates are photolithographic facsimiles (not fakes) tattoos, tiles, typescripts (unpublished), video recordings, and made between 1874 and 1878 by A. G. Dew-Smith (1848- web sites. 1903) to perfect his copy. This is a fascinating conclusion to I take Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement, faute de a bizarre story. In “William Blake and chichester,” Morton mieux, to be the standard bibliographical books on Blake,25 Paley, following Thomas Wright (1929), argues plausibly that and have noted significant differences from them. “the foundations of his [Blake’s] four-gated city [of Golgonoo- The organization of Division I of the checklist is as in Blake za] lay in chichester.” Books:

Red Herring Division I: William Blake Part I: editions, translations, and Facsimiles of According to a “Thought du jour” in the Globe and Mail Blake’s Writings [toronto] 13 Jan. 2010: l6, “‘There is no mistake so great as Section A: Original editions, Facsimiles, the mistake of not going on.’—William Blake.” This phrase reprints, and translations is not used in Blake’s writings or conversations, and I do not Section B: collections and Selections know why it should be foisted on Blake. Appendix: Writings Improbably Alleged to Be by Blake * * * * * * * * * Part II: reproductions of Drawings and Paintings The annual checklist of scholarship and discoveries con- Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors cerning William Blake and his circle records publications Section B: collections and Selections and discoveries for the current year (say, 2010) and those for Part III: commercial Book engravings previous years which are not recorded in Blake Books, Blake Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors Books Supplement, and “William Blake and His circle.” In- Section B: collections and Selections stallments of “William Blake and His circle” are continua- Appendix: Books Improbably Alleged to Have tions of Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement, with similar Blake engravings principles and conventions. Part IV: catalogues and Bibliographies Many of the entries below come from searches in December Part V: Books Owned by William Blake the Poet 2010 for “William Blake” and “2009-2010” in Google (7,470 Appendix: Books Owned by the Wrong William works), Google Books, Copac (99 works), and WorldCat (684 Blake in the Years 1770-1827 works). Part VI: criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies I have made no systematic attempt to record audio books16 Note: collections of essays on Blake are listed and magazines, blogs,17 broadcasts on radio and television, under the names of the editors, and issues of calendars,18 cD-rOMs, chinaware, coffee mugs,19 comic periodicals devoted extensively to him are listed books, computer printouts (unpublished), conferences, e- under the titles. mails, festivals and lecture series, furniture, jewelry,20 lectures on audiocassettes, lipstick, manuscripts, microforms, mosaics, movies, murals, music, notebooks (blank), pageants, perfor-

21. See the exhibition remember Me!, under 2010 in Part IV. 22. Such as from Funcky love (see note 20, above). 15. lange, “two Forged Plates in America copy B,” and Viscomi, “Fac- 23. For instance, *Fernand Péna, Ode to William Blake . Blake 16.4 (spring 1983): 212-18, 219-23. 24. Several t-shirts were available in 2010 at Zazzle . Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009); Stephen critchlow, robert Glenister, 25. except for the states of the prints for Blake’s commercial book and Michael Maloney [readers], The Great Poets: William Blake (Naxos engravings, where the standard authority is robert N. essick, William AudioBooks, 2007). Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations (Oxford: clarendon Press, 1991). 17. See Zoamorphosis: The Blake 2.0 Blog, ed. Jason Whittaker and Significant further details, especially about collations, are given in rog- roger Whitson . er r. easson and essick, William Blake Book Illustrator: A Bibliography 18. Such as §Art of Imagination: William Blake 2010 calendar (N.p.: and Catalogue of the Commercial Engravings, vol. 1: Plates Designed and Amber lotus, 2009). engraved by Blake (Normal: American Blake Foundation, 1972); vol. 2: 19. See William Blake: comus with His revellers coffee mugs, Zazzle Plates Designed or engraved by Blake 1774-1796 (Memphis: American . Blake Foundation, 1979); vol. 3 never appeared. The standard authority 20. At ArtFire , seller Funcky love offered in for prints issued separately is essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: 2010 barrettes, earrings, pendants or pins, and tie-pins. A Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).

6 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Division II: Blake’s Circle26 Blake Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly This division is organized by individual (say, William Hay- BR(2) G. e. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. (2004) ley or John Flaxman), with works by and about Blake’s friends Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of and patrons, living individuals with whom he had significant William Blake (1981) direct and demonstrable contact. It does not include impor- DAI Dissertation Abstracts International; note that now tant contemporaries with whom Blake’s contact was negli- DAI online offers access to the entire thesis gible or nonexistent, such as John constable and William ISBN International Standard Book Number Wordsworth and edmund Burke. Works in Japanese reviews, listed here under the book reviewed, are only for In books printed in the traditional Japanese format, the works which are chiefly about Blake, not for those with only, Japanese characters are printed in vertical columns, the col- say, a chapter on Blake. Note that Blake Books and Blake Books umns are read from top to bottom and from the righthand Supplement normally do not include reviews. column to those on the left. The pages are numbered from research for this checklist was carried out particularly in the righthand end of the book. text in european characters the libraries of the University of toronto and Victoria Uni- in such books is of course printed and read horizontally from versity in the University of toronto, Google Books, WorldCat, left to right, but the pagination, following the Japanese format, and Copac, and, for works published in Japan, CiNii (National seems to be backward (see Kobayashi in Part VI). Institute of Informatics Scholarly and Academic Informa- tion Navigator), the National Diet library online catalogue, Works in Serbian Komaba library and the General library of the University of Note that the poet’s names are given variously (e.g., Blejk, tokyo, and the National Diet library. Blejka, Blejku, Blejkova, Blejkovom) because of the seven dif- I should be most grateful to anyone who can help me to ferent cases in Serbian. better information about the unseen (§) items reported here, and I undertake to thank them prettily in person and in print. For many kinds of favors I thank Noriaki Abe (Subun-So Division I: William Blake Book Store, tokyo), Sandra Burgess (collections manager, Harriet Beecher Stowe center), Professor robert N. essick,27 Part I: Blake’s Writings Professor Alexander Gourlay, Sandra Ho (media relations manager, Morgan library), Mary lynn Johnson (for funky Section A: Original Editions, Facsimiles, Blake jewelry), Sarah Jones (for superb fact-checking and Reprints, and Translations editing), Stephen Massil, Dr. Jeffrey Barclay Mertz, Professor Morton Paley, Ivana Bancevic Pejovic (for a surprising num- table of collections ber of works in Serbian), and tom Simpson (rare book cata- Addenda loguer, e. J. Pratt library, Victoria University in the University bodleian library, Marginalia: The Mystical Initiations; of toronto). Oxford or, Hymns of Orpheus, trans. Thomas taylor (1787) Symbols Essick, Robert N. MS: letter, 7 Aug. 1804 * Works prefixed by an asterisk include one or more illustra- tions by Blake or depicting him. If there are more than 19 il- lustrations, the number is specified. If the illustrations include table of Watermarks all those for a work by Blake, say Thel or his illustrations to Addenda L’ Allegro, the work is identified. JW § Works preceded by a section mark are reported on second- letter, 7 Aug. 1804 (see letters, below). hand authority. America (1793) Abbreviations copy B BB G. e. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books (1977) Binding: America (B, printed 1795), probably then lacking pls. BBS G. e. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books Supplement (1995) 4 and 9, was stabbed through three holes 6.5 and 7.7 cm. apart apparently with Europe (c, printed 1794); America (B) was separated from Europe (c) by 1799 (when it was inscribed to 26. There is nothing in Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement cor- c. H. tatham) and probably sewn through three new stab- responding to Division II. holes 10.7, 12.9 cm. apart; it was presumably in this state, or 27. especially for his “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010” typescript, despite its distressing entries for “not in BB or BBS.” essick’s discoveries possibly unstitched, when sold “unbound” in 1874; by 1878 it were communicated to me in Dec. 2010 and printed in Blake 44.4 ( was “BOUND BY F. BeDFOrD” in citron morocco and, after 2011): 116-42. being bound thus, excellent photolithographic facsimiles of

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 7 pls. 4 and 928 (probably copied by its owner, A. G. Dew-Smith, paid 4s. in Oct. 179531 were For Children plus an extra print. In from copy F in the British Museum), marked “F” (?for “Fac- “to the Public” (1793), For Children is priced at 3s. simile”), were tipped in at the appropriate places to perfect the copy.29 For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (?1826) copy G copy r History: Offered by Quaritch in 1864 for £6.15.0 (see Part IV). History: “Almost certainly”30 this is the copy of edward Ver- non Utterson with 18 pls. “printed in tints” (like America [r] (?1784) in blue and green) in the Sotheby sale of 5 July 1852, lot 251 It was reproduced in the William Blake Archive in 2010. [sold for £2.7.0 (?to James Holmes)]; Quaritch offered it in Oct. 1883 for £36 (see Part IV) and in his General Catalogue edition (1886), lot 29489 (printed in blue, bound in half morocco, gilt *An Island in the Moon. William Blake Archive. ed. Morris edges), for £42. eaves, robert N. essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. . (1789) copy J Jerusalem (1804[-20]) Binding: Thel (J) and Visions (G) were bound by c. lewis edition according to the 1864 Quaritch catalogue but by Hering ac- Jerusalem. ed. e. r. D. Maclagan and A. G. B. russell. 1904. cording to the 1880 christie catalogue and the Quaritch cata- B. §The Prophetic Books of William Blake: Jerusa- logues of Aug. and Oct. 1883 (see Part IV) and 1896. lem. ed. e. r. D. Maclagan. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, History: Offered with Visions (G) by Quaritch in 1864 for 2010. legacy reprint Series. 152 pp.; ISBN: 9781163448021. £15.15.0 (see Part IV); … offered in his catalogues of Aug. and c. §Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant . [Whitefish]: Oct. 1883 for £85 (see Part IV). Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 72 pp.; ISBN: 9781161437607.

A Descriptive Catalogue (1809) “Joseph of Arimathea among the rocks of Albion” (1773) copy F copy l History: Offered by Quaritch in Oct. 1883 for £10.10.0 (see History: Offered by Quaritch in Aug. and Oct. 1883 for £4 Part IV). (see Part IV).

Europe (1794) letters edition table §Europa: en profetia. trans. Peter Glas. lund: Bakhåll, 1994. Symbols In Swedish. (Ph) transcribed from a photograph † A wax seal is on the letter. Wax seals are recorded only The First Book of (1794) on Blake’s letters of 1 Apr., 6 May, 22 Sept. 1800, 7, 19 edition Oct. 1801, 25 Apr., 16 Aug., 13 Dec. 1803, 27 Jan., 31 §The First Book of Urizen. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, Mar., 22 June, 7 Aug., 4 Dec. 1804, 22 Mar., 11 Dec. 2010. 28 pp.; ISBN: 9781161463293. 1805, [?May 1809]. The only seals which are fairly clear are on 19 Oct. 1801 (an owl), and 27 Jan., 7 Aug. 1804 (a For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793) classical head, perhaps Jupiter). copy F Date Postmark Watermark collection History: Perhaps “Blake’s engravings” for which Flaxman 32 1804 7 Aug. †AU JW[hatman] Robert N. Essick (Ph) [1]804 32

28. While pls. 4 and 9 were missing, the prints were numbered 2-16 in pencil by an unknown hand on pls. 2-3, 5-8, 10-18 below the bottom-left platemark. (BBS p. 54n23 erroneously describes the first numeration as “Blake’s page-numbers.”) Pls. 1-18 (including the facsimile pls. 4 and 9) were later correctly numbered 1-18 at the top-right corner of the leaf by 31. BR(2) 758. Flaxman was in Italy 1787-94 when For Children was a Quaritch assistant. published. 29. The new information here about numeration and facsimiles de- 32. According to Mark crosby and robert N. essick, “‘the fiends of rives from Joseph Viscomi, “two Fake Blakes revisited” (see Blake in Our commerce’” (see Blake 44.2 in Part VI) 54, “A large watermark in the Time, under Mulhallen in Part VI). BBS p. 54 suggests erroneously that center of the full sheet shows a shield with a horn within, the shield sur- pls. 4 and 9 were added after 1878. mounted by a crown and with a finial at its lower termination. Below 30. Viscomi, “two Fake Blakes revisited” (see Blake in Our Time, un- these motifs is an elaborate JW cipher that identifies the paper as What- der Mulhallen in Part VI) 43. It is probably not copy B as in BBS. man …. The chain lines are 2.4 cm. apart.”

8 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 1800 12 September claude Aveline, 1923.35 History: Acquired by 1885 by B. B. Macgeorge.33 §Himlens och helvetets äktenskap. trans. Johan Hammar- 1800 26 November ström. Umeå: h:ström, 2000. ISBN: 918944700X. In Swedish. History: letters of 26 Nov. 1800, 26 Oct. 1803, 4, 28 May, 9 Aug., 23 Oct., 18 Dec. 1804, 22 Jan., 17 May, 4 June 1805 were §*TheMarriage of Heaven and Hell (Text and Facsimiles). N.p.: offered by Quaritch in 1879 for £52.10.0 (see Part IV). Benediction Books, 2010. 60 pp.; ISBN: 9781849026864. A murky black-and-white reproduction of copy D with fac- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (?1790) ing transcriptions and no other added text besides the 2010 copies B and e title page. They were reproduced in theWilliam Blake Archive in 2010. *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy B. William Blake Ar- copy D chive. ed. Morris eaves, robert N. essick, and Joseph Vis- It was reproduced in black and white in 2010. comi. 2010. . copy M *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy e. William Blake Ar- It was reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition at Vic- chive. ed. Morris eaves, robert N. essick, and Joseph Vis- toria University, University of toronto (see under 2010 in Part comi. 2010. . IV). Milton (1804[-11]) editions copy D *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [F]. 1868. It was reproduced in the William Blake Archive in 2010. In “Very Important New Books” (added to works published by John camden Hotten, 1868 ff.) is an advertisement for editions “Original edition of Blake’s Works.” Milton. ed. e. r. D. Maclagan and A. G. B. russell. 1907, NOtIce.—Mr. Hotten has in preparation a few facsimile 1973. c. §Milton: The Prophetic Books copies (exact as to paper, printing—the water-colour draw- of William Blake. ed. e. r. D. Maclagan. [Whitefish]: Kes- ings being filled in by an artist) of the Original editions singer Publishing, 2010. legacy reprint Series. 82 pp. of the Books written and Illustrated by William Blake. As it is only intended to produce—with utmost care—a few ex- *Milton, copy D. William Blake Archive. ed. Morris eaves, amples of each work, Mr. Hotten will be glad to hear from any gentleman who may desire to secure copies of these robert N. essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. . and Hell,” 4to, is now being issued, price 30s., half morocco. [quotation from ] “The Order in which the Songs of Innocence and No other facsimile was issued in this series. experience ought to be paged” (?after 1818) In Quaritch’s New Catalogue of Miscellaneous Works (1876), History: Sold by §Puttick and Simpson, 3-4 July 1863 (“Bla- lot [16078], the [camden Hotten] facsimile is dated “(1871) kiana, The in MS., extracted from Allan Only 100 copies of this facsimile were printed, and of these cunningham, with curious plates, drawings, and scraps”) for only 25 copies were coloured.” £15.15.0;36 offered by Quaritch in 1864, lot 6521 (see Part IV), review including “14 portraits of the artist; his friends, and contem- Anon., North American Review 108, no. 223 (Apr. 1869): 641-46 (with two others) (the camden Hotten facsimile was 35. The title page is dated “McMXXIII,” but the colophon (p. 65) says “made from a fine copy in the possession of lord Houghton” it was printed “a Abbeville, le XXX Novembre McMXXII.” [F]; “the artist by whom the hand-work in the fac-simile was 36. Anon., “Fine Arts record,” Fine Arts Quarterly Review 1 (Oct. executed has lately died”). 1863): 434-35. Geoffrey Keynes, Engravings by William Blake: The Sepa- rate Plates: A Catalogue Raisonné (Dublin: emery Walker, 1956) 6, says George A. Smith (who sold the collection in 1880) collected the contents “le mariage du ciel et de l’enfer.” trans. André Gide. La of the volume “about 1853,” and Keynes, A Bibliography of William Blake nouvelle revue française ns no. 107 (1 Aug. 1922): 129-47. B. (New York: Grolier club, 1921) 319, cites “a prefatory note signed ‘G. A. Le mariage du ciel et de l’enfer. Paris,34 1922. c. Paris: chez S. 1855’” (which is not now with the collection). However, the references in Puttick and Simpson (1863) and Quaritch (1864) contradict this his- tory for the 1850s. Note also that the sketch of Thomas Hayley (no. 99 among the “Order” 33. It was first(?) printed in the account of “the collection of Blake’s materials, BB p. 339) is probably the “Portrait of Hayley the Sculptor” works in Mr. Macgeorge’s possession,” Thomas Mason,Public and Private (Butlin #345, now in the Yale center for British Art) sold at Sotheby’s, Libraries of Glasgow (Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1885) 291-93. 29 Apr. 1862, lot 178 (with 7 others, including the portrait of romney, 34. Not “charlot” (a publisher, not a place) as in BB #111B. Butlin #349).

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 9 poraries” (among which is “thomas Hayley, an Original §Songs of Innocence. [charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 86 pp.; Drawing, by W. Blake”) and the huge “canterbury Pilgrims” ISBN: 9781176997844. print; … offered by Quaritch in Oct. 1883 for £80 (see Part IV). Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794[-1831]) “Pickering [Ballads] Manuscript” (?after 1807) copy G edition History: copies G and N were listed in Quaritch’s Catalogue §The Pickering Manuscript. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publish- of Books, in All Classes of Literature (1860), lot 5400, “2 vols. ing, 2010. 24 pp.; ISBN: 9781161473339. in 1, 4to. 40 most remarkable engravings, half red morocco, uncut, £8.10s,” bound up with The World Turned Upside Down (1783) (1822); after the leaves of copy N were separated, copy G was Facsimile Pages offered by Quaritch in A New Catalogue of English Books The clearest type differences between the original and the (1875), lot 9426 (small octavo, “15 plates of 17 poems … type-facsimile are the omission of the catchword (“tHe” printed in colours on thick paper, on one side only, hf. calf,” for “tHe | cOUcH OF DeAtH”) at the foot of p. 59 and with a list of the poems, £25). the misprint “honſte-ſeeming” for “honeſt-ſeeming” on p. 65 (“Samson”) of the facsimile. copy U In the facsimile leaves is a watermark “MIcHAllet” (not History: Offered by Quaritch in Oct. 1883 for £170 (see Part present in copy K), and the vertical chain lines are 2.8 cm. IV). apart, as in the original paper. However, the chain lines are much fainter in the facsimile than in the original, and the fac- Pls. 2 (frontispiece to Innocence) and 4 (“Introduction” to In- simile paper seems to be a trifle thicker. In copy K, the same nocence) thicker paper is used for the blank leaves adjacent to the text. Description: Three drawings on 3 leaves: “Original Designs” for Songs pls. 2 and 4, plus “An ideal Hell” (Butlin #217) (see copy Q Quaritch’s catalogue of 1879, lot 12894, in Part IV). No other History: Perhaps this is the copy sold at Sotheby’s on 21 Feb. drawing for Songs of Innocence is known, and “An ideal Hell” 1843, lot 336, to the dealer rodd (see Part IV). has not been further identified. History: “From the collection of a friend of Blake’s”; offered editions at £10 in Quaritch catalogues no. 322 (Mar. 1879) (see Part Poetical Sketches. ed. richard Herne Shepherd. 1868. B. §N.p.: BiblioBazaar, 2009. 5.8" x 8.8", 110 pp.; ISBN: 12894; (Oct. 1883) (see Part IV), lot 10249; (1887), lot 10249; 9781117078304. untraced. review Anon., North American Review 108, no. 223 (Apr. 1869): 641- editions 46 (with two others). §Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience. New York and lon- don: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, [c. 1903]. Ar- Songs of Innocence (1789) iel Booklets no. 150. 9.5 x 13.9 cm., 86 pp. (plus 6-pp. list of copy B Ariel Booklets).38 History: Acquired by “r H clarke,”37 who signed the first fly- Includes “” from Blake’s Notebook. leaf. §Pesni na nevinosta i na iskustvoto: što pokažuvaat dve sprotivni editions sostojbi na čovečkata duša. trans. Ivan Džeparosci. Skopje: Songs of Innocence. Preface by Thomas Seccombe. [1911]. Misla, 1988. 21 cm., 120 pp.; ISBN: 8615000085. In Mace- B. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 126 pp.; donian. ISBN: 9781176728851. §*Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. “First published 1789 [sic],” “republished 2008 by Forgotten Books” , “original title page” is unrelated to 2nd, William Blake’s Illuminated Books: A Census (New York: Grolier club, 1953), identifies r. H. clarke as “the son of Hayley’s friend J. S. the one reproduced here. clarke [1765?-1834].” However, Stephen Massil of the Garrick club li- brary (london) tells me that r. H. clarke does not appear in the will of §Canciones de inocencia y de experiencia. trans. Nicolás James Stanier clarke or in that of his widow. The identification of the Suescún. caracas: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la cul- Blake collector as the son of J. S. clarke therefore seems implausible. He tura, Fundación editorial el perro y la rana, 2009. colección is probably robert Henry clarke (1818-1906), son of Henry and Marga- ret clarke, baptized Mar. 1818 at Manchester Square Wesleyan church, St. Marylebone, recorded as “clerk in stationers” in the 1881 census, and 38. The information is from essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” buried Jan. 1906 at camberwell Old cemetery. Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 131.

10 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Poesía del Mundo, Serie clásicos. 21 cm., 141 pp.; ISBN: (“By all standards this is the best edition of Blake available on 9789801405368. In Spanish. the market today” [i.e., in print]).

§Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience. [Whitefish]: Kess- §*Chants d’Innocence; Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer; Chants inger Publishing, 2010. 43 pp.; ISBN: 9781161453386. d’Expérience. trans. Bernard Pautrat. Paris: rivages, 2010. rivages Poche/Petite Bibliothèque no. 676. 224 pp.; ISBN: Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 9782743620790. In French. copies e and I They were reproduced in theWilliam Blake Archive in 2010. “The edition of the Works of Wm. Blake” by “The Blake Press at edmonton” (1884-90) copy G A unique, very Blakean watercolor “title Page by Wm Muir” For the binding and history, see Thel (J), above. (see illus. 1 online) was commissioned and paid for (£1.5.0, June 1889), presumably by “HeNrY MArtIN GIBBS | of editions Barrow court Flax Bourton | co. Somerset”, whose bookplate *Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy e. William Blake appears in the volume, to accompany Muir’s facsimiles of In- Archive. ed. Morris eaves, robert N. essick, and Joseph Vis- nocence, Experience, Visions, Thel, Marriage, Milton, There is comi. 2010. . No Natural Religion, Gates of Paradise, and Urizen, bound by Zaehnsdorf (1890, £7.10.0).39 It omits America, Europe, The *Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy I. William Blake Ar- Song of , On Homer, and “little tom .” chive. ed. Morris eaves, robert N. essick, and Joseph Vis- comi. 2010. . . Facsimilied by W. Muir …. 1887.

*Blake’s Poetry and Designs. ed. Mary lynn Johnson and John e. Grant. 1979, 2008. 39. The complete set of Muir facsimiles was offered by John Windle, review Mar. 2010; the prices and dates here derive from an inventory, presum- James rovira, College Literature 36.4 (2009) ably by Gibbs, which accompanies the volume.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 11 1828 (image 7.1 x 4.4 cm.); in 1818, 1823 the girls follow the §Poesie. Introduzione di Sergio Perosa, cura e traduzione di boys, while in 1828 the boys follow the girls.40 Giacomo conserva. 1976, 1991. c. 3rd ed. rome: , 2003. Grandi tascabili § and . N.p.: cherub Press, 1981. Min- economici. 22 cm., 198 pp. In Italian. iature book 5.2 x 6 cm., 4 pp., 240 copies.41 §Poesie. Novara: De Agostini, [2005]. I tesori della poesia in §Innocenza e crudeltà: Liriche. trans. Angelo Zanon Dal Bo. miniatura. 9 cm., 344 pp. In Italian. Milan: edizioni Accademia, 1976. 21 cm., 306 pp. In Italian. The Poetical Works of William Blake. ed. John Sampson. 1905 §Izabrana dela [Selected Works]. trans. Dragan Purešić. Bel- …. G. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, grade: Plato, 2007. In Serbian. 2010. 7.4" x 9.7", 432 pp.; ISBN: 9781177688857.

§Izabrana poezija i proza [Selected Poetry and Prose]. trans. *The Poetical Works of William Blake. ed. John Sampson. Dragan Purešić. Belgrade: Itaka, 1998. 21 cm., 119 pp.; ISBN: 1913 …. O. §[No editor named]. [Memphis]: 8681635158. In Serbian. General Books, 2010. 6" x 9", 270 pp.; ISBN: 9781153250368.

§Izabrane pesme [Selected Poems]. trans. Vesna egerić. §Poetry of William Blake. ed. P. K. roy. Jaipur: ABD Publish- Vrbas: Slovo, 1997. 17 cm., 110 pp. In Serbian. ers, 2010. 353 pp.; ISBN: 9788183760508.

§A Memorable Fancy: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / Une Selections from the Symbolical Poems of William Blake. ed. Vision Mémorable: Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer. [trans. Frederick e. Pierce. 1915. B. §[Whitefish]: Kes- Marie-christine Natta, illus. José San Martin, christine tacq]. singer Publishing, 2010. legacy reprint Series. c. §[charles- Thame: p’s & q’s Press, 2007. 28 x 21 cm., 24 pp., 60 copies; no ton]: Nabu Press, 2010. 102 pp.; ISBN: 9781176971240. ISBN. In english and French. §Selections from the Writings of William Blake. ed. laurence §*Poeme şi gravuri: Poems and Gravas [sic]. ed. cicerone Housman. 1893. B. §[Memphis]: General Books, Theodorescu. Bucharest: crater, 1999. 22 cm., 127 pp.; ISBN: 2010. 308 pp.; ISBN: 9781152598218. 9739029647. In romanian. *Songs of Innocence and of Experience. A Portfolio of eighteen §*Poems. Selected by James Fenton. london: Faber and Facsimile Impressions. 2009. two octavo- Faber, 2010. xxiv, 95 pp.; ISBN: 9780571236039. size paper-covered “volumes” (13.9 x 19.4 cm.) within a huge hinged double-clamshell box (132.5 x 37 cm.). Poems by William Blake. ed. Alice Meynell. 1911, [1927]. The text volume, *William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of c. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Experience (1794): A Note on Production, consists of Anon., legacy reprint Series. 244 pp.; ISBN: 9781163898765. [introduction] in the third person (5-8) and Michael Phillips, c is a digital reproduction of the 1911 edition. “A Note on Production” (9-34), with sections on “relief etch- ing” (18-22), “Printing the Facsimile” (23-24), “Ink” (25-26), The Poems of William Blake. ed. W. B. Yeats. 1893 …. l. §[Whitefish]: (33) from his “The Printing of Blake’s ,” Kessinger Publishing, 2010. legacy reprint Series. 324 pp.; Print Quarterly 21 (2004) . The plates were ISBN: 9781163393420. M. §[Memphis]: General Books, printed by “Dennis Hearne at Flying Horse editions.” The fac- 2010. 292 pp. simile “volume” consists of a folded unmarked leaf with string through three stabholes plus 18 unsewn reproductions. The Poems, with Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William review Blake. Prefatory notice by Joseph Skipsey. 1885 …. F. §N.p.: BiblioBazaar, 2010. 296 pp.; ISBN: 9781141086689. G. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience with Other Poems. [ed. 304 pp.; ISBN: 9781154815450. r. H. Shepherd]. 1866, 1868, 2009. review Anon., North American Review 108, no. 223 (Apr. 1869): 641- 46 (with two others).

40. Details of the prints were first reported in essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 126-27. §Tygře, tygře, žhavě žhneš. trans. Zdeněk Hron. Illus. Vojtěch 41. essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): Domlátil. Prague: Dokořán, 2010. Mocca. 15 cm., 75 pp.; 131. ISBN: 9788073633066. In czech.

12 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 §*Udvalgte skrifter. copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1970. Hotten, whose stock was taken over by chatto & Windus.46 166 pp. In Danish. Further, the chatto & Windus lists do not suggest that the work was “for Private circulation.” And after 1876 “Blake’s §Vizije. trans. Marko Grčić. Zagreb: centar za društvene Works” no longer appeared in chatto & Windus lists, though nauke, 1972. Biblioteka centra, edicija Pjesnici. 179 pp. In Swinburne’s William Blake: A Critical Essay (london: chatto croatian? & Windus, 1868) was advertised in all these lists. chatto & Windus had 100 sets of “Blake reproductions” §Vječno evanđelje. trans. Marko Grčić. Zagreb: Grafički za- printed on 17 Nov. 1877 and bound on 26 Jan. 1878 . Plainly the Works by William Blake dated 1876 was not croatian? ready for distribution until 1878. “Komentar” (172-89). Jerusalem was probably omitted because an uncolored fac- simile was published by John Pearson in 1877 . William Blake Archive In 2010 the archive added 39 illustrations to the Bible (20 §Works of William Blake. Boston: Mobilereference, 2007. watercolors and 19 temperas), An Island in the Moon, Milton Mobi collected Works. ISBN: 9781605011783. An e-book. (D) (all four copies are now reproduced in the archive), Vi- sions (e, I), and Marriage (B, e). *The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. ed. edwin John ellis and William Butler Yeats. 1893 …. #369, BBS pp. 169-70, Blake (2008, 2009)> “A list of Books Published by chatto & Windus” (london, Note the *prospectus for The Poetic Books of William Blake, Dec. 1874)42 advertises Collected, and Their Myth and Meaning Explained by Edwin Blake’s Works. Messrs. chatto & Windus have in prepara- John Ellis and William Butler Yeats (london: Quaritch, 1891) tion a series of reproductions in Facsimile of the Works of . William Blake, including the “Songs of Innocence and [of] experience,” “The Book of Thel,” America,”“ “The Vision[s] of the Daughters of Albion,”43 “The Marriage of Heaven and §Works: Opere. trans. Mihai Stroe. 2 vols. Iaşi: Institutul He l l ,” “europe, a Prophecy,” “Jerusalem,” “Milton,” “Urizen,” european, 2006. In romanian and english. “,” &c. These Works will be issued both co- Vol. 1: The Prophetic Books: , or TheFour Zoas/cărţile loured and plain. (36) profetice: Vala sau Cei patru Zoa; vol. 2: The Illuminated Pro- The same works were named and a quotation from charles phetic Books: Milton/cărţile profetice iluminate: Milton. lamb added in “A list of Books Published by chatto and Windus” (n.d.)44 and in the chatto & Windus “list of Books” Part II: Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings (Oct. 1876),45 omitting the lamb quotation. This seems to be the Works by William Blake, reproduced Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors from copies of Blake’s poems in the British Museum. How- ever, there are important differences. Works by William Blake Bible omits Milton, Jerusalem, TheMarriage of Heaven and Hell, and In 2010, 39 illustrations to the Bible (20 watercolors and 19 “&c,” it was not colored, and the individual poems were not temperas) were reproduced in the William Blake Archive. separately issued in “a series.” Marriage was probably omit- ted because it had been reproduced in 1868 by John camden Blair, robert, (1805) edition *William Blake’s Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair. ed. Martin Butlin. 2009. names: Their Sources and Significations, 2nd ed. (london: chatto & Win- review dus, 1875) and More Puniana; or, Thoughts Wise and Other- robert N. essick (see Blake 44.3 in Part VI). Why’s, ed. Hon. Hugh rowley (london: chatto & Windus, 1875). 43. Note that the erroneous singular “Vision” is found in both the chatto & Windus list and in Works by William Blake. Section B: Collections and Selections 44. It is bound with edward lee childe, The Life and Campaigns of General Lee (london: chatto & Windus, 1875) and with *Binyon, laurence. The Drawings and Engravings of Wil- other chatto & Windus publications of 1875 and 1876. liam Blake. ed. Geoffrey Holme. 1922, 1967. 45. Bound with [William Hurrell Mallock], The New Republic (lon- don: chatto & Windus, 1877) and other chatto & Windus publications. It does not appear in “A list of Books Published by chatto 46. Morton D. Paley, “John camden Hotten, A. c. Swinburne, and & Windus” (May 1874) bound with [John camden Hotten], The Slang the Blake Facsimiles of 1868,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library 79 Dictionary (london: chatto & Windus, 1874) or in chatto (1976) . chatto & Windus published a transcription of Mar- & Windus lists after 1877. riage with an introduction by Francis Griffin Stokes in 1911.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 13 c. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 292 pp.; ISBN: Anon., “list of Works recently Published,” Eclectic Review 4, 9781177680431. part 2 (Oct. 1808): 950 (under “Poetry”). Anon., “Quarterly list of New Publications, from October Part III: Commercial Engravings47 1808 to January 1809,” Edinburgh Review 13, no. 26 (Jan. 1809): 500 (under “Arts, Fine”), 508 (under “Poetry”). Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors A Catalogue of the … Library of John Leigh Philips, Esq. De- ceased … Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Winstanley & Taylor, Bible 17 Oct. 1814 and 8 days (Manchester, 1814) (lot 1400: 1808, Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826 …) £1.18.0 to Brook). editions A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, New and coutts, Francis. The Heresy ofJob: With the Inventions of Wil- Second Hand, on Sale, at the Prices Affixed, by John and Arthur liam Blake. 1907. B. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Pub- Arch, No. 61, Cornhill, London. 1815. lishing, 2010. 196 pp.; ISBN: 9781120888532. Thomas edwards’s catalogue (1815) (lots 218, 527 [1808]). “Mr. Ackermann Begs leave to solicit the Attention ….” list §*The Book of Job Translated in Rhyme by J. H. Schwarz with of publications added to William Warden, Letters Written on William Blake’s Illustrations. Peoria: rev. J. H. Schwarz, 1974. Board His Majesty’s Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint It includes reproductions of “proof” impressions of all Helena; in Which the Conduct and Conversations of Napo- Blake’s prints save the title page.48 leon Buonaparte, and His Suite, during the Voyage, and the First Months of His Residence in That Island, Are Faithfully §*William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job. With a com- Described and Related, 3rd ed. (london: Published for the mentary by Dr. Udo Szekulics. Vienna: Udo Szekulics, 2010. Author, by r. Ackermann, 1816) (“First edition, with proof 64 pp.; ISBN: 9783200017382. Impressions of the plates. Atlas 4to. Boards, 3l. 13s. 6d. N. B. Includes full-size reproductions of the 22 engravings. A few copies only left of this edition”). 50 A General Catalogue of Books, Now on Sale, by Lackington, §Illustrations of the Book of Job. [ charleston]: Nabu Press, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, part 2 (1817) (lot 9916 2010. 52 pp.; ISBN: 9781176714991. [1808]). A Catalogue of Old Books (london: longman, Hurst, rees, Blair, robert, The Grave Orme, and Brown, 1817) (lot 4902 [1808, £1.10.0]). (1808, 1813, [1870], 1926) Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones’s General The Grave, a Poem. [c. 1879]. Catalogue of Books … for the Year 1819 (lot 183 [1808, “gilt New location: Victoria University in the University of toronto. leaves”]). Catalogue of Books for 1821 (r. Ackermann, 1821) (as in his editions 1815 catalogue, below). §TheGrave: A Poem Illustrated by Twelve Etchings. [Whitefish]: [Thomas] Edwards’s Catalogue (Halifax, 1821) (lot 314 [1808, Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 26 pp.; ISBN: 9781161364095. £3.3.0]). Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Benjamin Heath Malkin, §The Grave, a Poem. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings Execut- Esq. LL.D. … Sold … by Mr. Evans, 22 Mar. 1828 and 6 days ed by L. Schiavonetti, from the Original Inventions of Wil- (lot 237 [1808 sold for 7s. 6d.]). liam Blake. [charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 86 pp.; ISBN: Catalogue of the Library of David Constable … Which Will Be 9781176652071. Sold by Auction, by D. Speare … on Wednesday, Nov. 19. and Twenty-One Following Lawful Days (edinburgh, 1828) 75 (lot Sales, etc., 1808-1830s49 1370). 1808 Anon., “New Works Published in edinburgh,” Scots Maga- 1813 zine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany 70 (Sept. 1808): 683. Ackermann prospectus (?1813) (“large elephant Quarto” £2.12.6, “Quarto Atlas” £3.13.6).51

47. From 2010 I record pre-1863 references to separately issued prints. 48. The information derives from essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 50. Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, vol. 41 (Paris: l. G. 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 131. Michaud, 1825) 124, lists Blair’s Grave (1813) in the entry on Schiavonetti. 49. The sales records specify Blake, 12 or 13 engravings or etchings, Ideen zur Kunst-Mythologie, ed. Julius Sillig, vol. 2 (Dresden: in der Ar- Schiavonetti, quarto, and £2.12.6 for both 1808 and 1813 editions, unless noldischen Buchhandlung, 1836) 506n (in German), also refers to the otherwise noted. The quarto is sometimes qualified as “royal” (Eclectic 1813 edition (“der geistvolle Zeichner Blake in seinen Kupfern zu Blairs Review, Edinburgh Review), “atlas” (Ackermann ?1813, 1815, 1816, 1818, Grave …”) and describes three scenes. 1824, 1828), “elephant” (Ackermann 1815, 1816, eastburn 1818, carey Note that Ackermann had plainly purchased not only the copper- 1818, Ackermann 1821-22, eastburn 1822, Ackermann 1824), or “large plates and copyright but the remainder of the copies of the 1808 edition. elephant” (Ackermann ?1813, 1818). 51. See BB p. 533.

14 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 A Catalogue of Books … Property of John Leigh Philips, 11 Nov. 22-25 July 1825 (lot 123 [“rare, proofs,” 9s. 6d.]). Schiavonetti, India paper, proof”52 [Ford, 15s.]). “New Works Published by r. Ackermann.” Added to Asiatic Catalogue of Books, for 1815 (r. Ackermann, 1815) (1808 Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from “proof impressions of the plates, atlas 4to, £3.13.6—A few Designs Taken from Life (london: r. Ackermann, 1828) copies only left of this edition”; 2nd ed. (1813), elephant quar- (£2.2.0). to, £2.12.6).53 “Books Published by r. Ackermann.” list of publications add- chaucer, Geoffrey, ed to Frederic Shoberl, A Historical Account … of the House of The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer’s Pilgrims (1812) Saxony … (london: r. Ackermann, 1816). Notice A Catalogue of a Very Extensive and Valuable Miscellaneous Anon., “Monthly list of Publications,” British Critic 39 (Feb. Collection of Books from the North of England [edwards of 1812): 211 (“The Prologue and characters of chaucer’s Pil- Halifax] … Sold by Auction, by Mr. Saunders, 30 Mar. 1818 grims, with a Frontispiece, representing Part of the Group set- and 15 days (lots 949-50 [£1.5.0 and £1.6.0]). ting out from the talbot Inn, Southwark. By Mr. William Bake A Catalogue of Books for 1818 … on Sale by James Eastburn & [sic]. 2s. 6d.”). Co. (New York, May 1818) 10 (“with proof impressions of the plates,” $15). Newly recorded title “Works of Art, Published by r. Ackermann.” list of publica- §European Magazine, and London Review 43 (Apr. 1803) tions added to Fredrick Accum, A Practical Treatise on Gas- The oval frontispiece of “George romney, esq.r ” engraved Light, 4th ed. (london: r. Ackermann, 1818) (“Printed on by William ridley of romney’s self-portrait probably derives large elephant Quarto. 2l. 12s. 6d. extra boards.—A few cop- from Blake’s miniature copied from the self-portrait for Hay- ies on Quarto Atlas, 3l. 13s. 6d.”). ley, not from romney’s original (then belonging to Hayley, Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Depart- now in the National Portrait Gallery, london). The evidence ment of Ancient and Modern Literature, for Sale by M. Carey is persuasively laid out by Mark crosby and robert N. essick, and Son (Philadelphia, 1818) (“elephant 4to. with proofs. “‘the fiends of commerce’” (see Blake 44.2 in Part VI). $15”). London Catalogue (1818, 1831) lists Murray as publisher. New location: Morgan library and Museum. Friedrich Adolf ebert, Allgemeines Bibliographisches Lexikon, Notice54 vol. 1 (1821) (in German) (no. 2454). Literary Miscellany 78 (May 1816): 373-74. “Ackermann’s list of Works.” Added to the Edinburgh Review 36 (Oct. 1821-Feb. 1822). Flaxman, John, The Iliad of Homer(1805, 1870) A Catalogue of Books, … Now on Sale, for Cash, … by James New location: Morgan library and Museum. Eastburn (New York, May 1822) (lot 17, “with proof impres- sions of the plates, elephant, boards, $15”). Hayley, William, Ballads (1805) “Books, &c. Published by r. Ackermann.” Added to Dr. F. New location: National library of Denmark. A. Krummacher, Parables, trans. from the German by Fred- eric Shoberl (london: r. Ackermann, 1824) and to William Hayley, William, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802) combe, Letters between Amelia in London and Her Mother in Sales of all four ballads55 the Country (london: r. Ackermann, 1824). evans, sale of Hayley’s library, 13 Feb. 1821 and 12 follow- A Catalogue of Books … by Rivingtons and Cochran (1824) ing days, lot 1636, “Hayley’s Ballads, with Blake’s Designs, 4 (lots 292, 11795). Numbers, 1802” (4s. 6d. to “Smith”), and lot 1637, 3 num- christie sale of William Sharp, 18-19 Feb. 1825 (lot 16, with bers (“rivington,” 3s. 6d.), perhaps the copy in the National Portraits of British Poets no. 1, £1.13.0). library of Wales, “the only traced copy with 3 ballads.” A Catalogue of the … Library of the Late Henry Fuseli, Sotheby, Sotheby, 29 Nov.-9 Dec. 1843, “second portion” of the library of Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, lot 557 (30 Nov.), “Blake 52. A copy with “proofs on India paper, russia” was listed in the Cata- (W.) Designs to a series of Ballads written by W. Hayley, plates, logue of the Splendid, Choice, and Curious Library of P. A. Hanrott, Esq. 4 parts chichester, 1802” (“evans,” 13s.). Part the First … Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans, 16 July 1833 and 11 days, Sotheby, 29-30 Jan. 1878, sale of the library of Albert George lot 630 (to “Anh[?]” for £2.6.0). 53. The title given in the Ackermann list (1815) for the “First Edi- tion” (1808)—“with Biographical Accounts of Blair, Schiavonetti, and 54. Advertisements and notices are included only when they specify cromek”—is in fact that of the 1813 second edition (“to which is add- “engraved by J. Blake.” ed a life of the author”), and BB p. 533 mistakenly associates the 55. The information derives from essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, advertisement with the second edition. 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 142.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 15 Dew-Smith (collector and photographer, 1848-1903), lot 197 (29 Jan.), “Blake (W.) Designs to a Series of Ballads written a. What I have called “diary” is headed “KAleNDAr and by W. Hayley, with the Ballads annexed, fine impressions of AlBUM 1825.” All after p. 336 (the diary) is missing from the plates, green morocco extra, g. e. chichester, 1802” (£9 to cambridge copy 3, Morgan, National library of Wales copies “Jones”); perhaps this is the essick copy in green morocco, all 2-3, and New York Public library, as in the issue of 1825. In addition, the date has been erased from the title page in edges gilt. cambridge copy 3 and National library of Wales copies 2-3, and the engraved title page with the date is missing from the Hayley, William, The Life of George Romney (1809) Morgan copy. All these were presumably issued in 1825. Ordinary copies of Hayley’s Romney have a printed spine b. cambridge copy 1 is bound in light-green grained label reading “lIFe | OF | G. rOMNeY | — | HAYleY” , but that on large-paper copies reads “HAYleY’S | LIFE tooling on the spine, and a brown title label on the spine with | of | rOMNeY. | Illustrated | WItH | tWelVe PlAteS | BY gilt lettering. For the copies now in cambridge, see BB #490 | CAROLINE WATSON ” , though she engraved only and BBS p. 247. 7 of them. c. In cambridge copy 6, the boards and spine are decorated Newly recorded engraving after Blake in gilt with a red title label on the spine. In caroline Watson’s frontispiece of three self-portraits of d. essick copy 1, acquired from Douglas cleverdon, is described in Geoffrey Keynes, Blake Studies, 2nd ed. (Oxford: romney, the small oval one at bottom representing romney clarendon Press, 1971) 144. wearing a hat is probably copied from Blake’s lost miniature e. The essick copy is bound in dark-red morocco, with gilt (Mark crosby and robert N. essick, “‘the fiends of com- and blind decorations and “reMeMBer | Me” on the spine; merce’” [see Blake 44.2 in Part VI] 64). essick is fairly certain that it is a publisher’s binding. f. The Harvard (Houghton) copy, reproduced online , shows the cover The two versions ofThe Triumphs of Temper dated 1807, each of dark-red pebble-grain cloth. called the “Thirteenth edition,” are typographically identical g. The Huntington copy lacks pp. 153-60. except for the title pages.56 The one without the Blake prints is h. The Morgan copy is inscribed “W. M. rossetti from the second state of the thirteenth edition, not a new edition. Swinburne 1878.” i. With extraordinary generosity, timothy cutts of the National library of Wales rare Book Unit wrote me that Malkin, Benjamin Heath, The copy is sewn on three recessed cords laced into A Father’s Memoirs of His Child (1806) boards with a tight back, covered in full embossed purple edition skiver [soft thin sheepskin]. The headbands are sewn in §A Father’s Memoirs of His Child. [charleston]: Nabu Press, blue and white thread. The spine is lettered in gold with 2010. 246 pp.; ISBN: 9781178413212. four gilded panels, and the borders of the boards are tooled with an ornamental gold fillet line. rees, Abraham, The Cyclopædia(1802-20) j. National library of Wales copy 2 has the date rubbed off Pl. 3, “GEM Engraving” “Engraved by W. Blake & W. Low- the title page, and it has been rebound in a dark-green case ry” and “Drawn by Farey,” representing Jupiter Serapis, was binding with “1831” tooled in gold on the spine. There are “copied after pl. 2 in lorenz Natter, A Treatise on the Ancient no diary pages, and the copy ends at p. 336. The name W. H. Method of Engraving on Precious Stones (london: for the au- Davey has been scratched on the upper cover. 57 k. National library of Wales copy 3 comes from the library thor, 1754).” of Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921), poet, literary scholar, and bibliographer, of Midhurst, Sussex. Remember Me! (1824, 1825) l. In the copy in the Berg collection of the New York Public See the cumulative table on p. 17. library, beneath the green cover of the sleevecase is red paper. reviews m. Victoria University copy 1 (formerly essick’s) lacks pp. Anon., Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction 4, 73-74 (f. e1). supplementary no. 116 ([4 Dec. 1824]): 413 (“This is another of those annual volumes to which Mr. Ackermann’s work has given rise. … Remember Me does not rest its claims to support on its superior graphic embellishments or good poetry, but to its botanical embellishments, which to say the truth, are very prettily coloured”).

56. Mark crosby, “‘a ladys Book’: Blake’s engravings for Hayley’s The Triumphs of Temper” (see Blake in Our Time, under Mulhallen in Part VI). 57. essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 142.

16 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Remember Me! (1824, 1825) A cumulative table

Location Cover Color of edges Color of endpapers Inscription for Color of gift or diarya sleevecase Boston Public library rebound gilt no endpaper none no sleevecase (1824) cambridge 1 (1824) green straight-grain gilt marbled blue and none no sleevecase moroccob brown cambridge 2 (1824) pink gilt slate gray yes pink cambridge 3 (1825?) cream yellow pink none bright green cambridge 4 (1824) cream gilt brown 1 in diary no sleevecase cambridge 5 (1824) brown gilt slate gray slate gray cambridge 6 (1824)c bright green gilt brown red essick 1 (1824)d pale green gilt orange red essick 2 (1825) dark-red moroccoe gilt marbled Harvard (1825) reboundf white S. P. Warren Huntington (1824)g James Madison University (1825) Morgan library green straight-grain gilt plain no sleevecase (1825?)h morocco National library of purplei sprinkled in red marbled gray with Francis Fortuny no sleevecase Wales 1 (1824) blue, pink, and orange National library of rebound gilt plain none no sleevecase Wales 2 (1825?)j National library of yellow front green, back none orange Wales 3 (1825?)k white New York Public library cream front yellow brown, bright greenl (1825) back cream Princeton (1824) rebound pink none Harriet Beecher Stowe rebound, gilt marbled gray and none no sleevecase center (1824) leather spine cream Victoria University in the green straight-grain gilt marbled University of toronto 1 morocco (1824)m Victoria University in the paper white gilt green present University of toronto 2 (1824) University of Virginia (1824)

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 17 Anon., Monthly Critical Gazette 2, no. 8 (1 Jan. 1825): 187 Branch of Polite Literature; Including the Entire Libraries of the (“‘remember Me’ differs very considerably from any of its Rev. Harvey Spragg … also of the Rev. Henry Putman …. The rival cotemporaries [but it doesn’t say how]. Its engravings, Sale Will Begin on February 19, 1798, by John White, Booksell- principally of flowers, are very beautiful”). er, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet-Street, London (1798) (lot “1217 Young’s Thoughts, a magnificent edition, with engrav- Salzmann, c. G., ings from Drawings by Blake, 5l 5s to subscribers, when com- Elements of Morality (1791, 1792, 1799, 1805, ?1815) pleted, boards — — — 1797”). † robert N. essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake Anon., “A correct list of New Publications,” Monthly Mag- 44.4 (spring 2011): 141, suggests that the hand of Blake’s ap- azine 5, no. 32 (June 1798): 455 (“Young’s Night Thoughts, prentice Thomas Owen may be found in the anonymous Sal- decorated with appropriate Designs, by Mr. Blake, Part 1. 1l. zmann prints dated Oct. 1790 to Mar. 1791: “They are techni- 1s. robson”). cally quite simple, in comparison with Blake’s other etchings/ §Englische Blätter [English Leaves], ed. l[udwig] Schubart engravings of the period, and contain awkward patches ….” (erlangen, in der Waltherschen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1798) (the catalogue entries are in english, the commentaries Stedman, John Gabriel, in German: “Young’s Night Thoughts, decorated with appro- Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition … (1796, 1806, 1813) priate Designs, by Mr. Blake, Part. I.”). † 1796 New location: National library of Sweden. A Catalogue of Valuable Books, in Various Languages, and in Blake’s engraving of “The Skinning of the Aboma Snake” Every Class of Literature: Which Are to Be Sold, at the Prices was copied in A General Collection of the Best and Most In- Affixed to Each Article, by Thomas Payne, Bookseller (lon- teresting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; Many don, 1799) (lot “777 Young’s Night Thoughts, with engrav- of Which Are Now First Translated into English. Digested on ings round each page from the designs of Blake, 2 numbers, a New Plan, by John Pinkerton … Illustrated with Plates, vol. boards, — 1797 & 98”). † 14 (london: longman, Hurst, rees, Orme, and Brown, and A Catalogue of Books, in Every Department of Literature … cadell and Davies, 1813) at p. 257 (see cover illus.; illus. 2 online). Young’s Night Thoughts, a magnificent edition, with engrav- ings from Drawings by Blake, boards, 5l 5s — 1797,” listed Virgil, Pastorals (1821) under folio). † reviews, notices A List of Books, for Sale at W[illiam Nelson] Gardiner’s, 48, Anon., “New Books Published in February,” Monthly Maga- Pall-Mall, at the Ready Money Prices Affixed (london: Printed zine 51, no. 351 (1 Mar. 1821): 167 (“highly pleasing and in- by J. Barker, 1808) 40 (lot “860 Young’s Night Thoughts, curi- structive”). ous cuts, by Blake, boards, 1l 5s 1797”). † Anon., “literary and Scientific Intelligence,”Edinburgh Maga- §A Catalogue of Books, in English, Greek, Latin, French and zine 8 (Apr. 1821): 378. Italian Literature, with a Few Articles in the Spanish, Portu- Anon., “Quarterly list of New Publications, from March to guese, German, Russian, and Dutch Languages for Sale at W. July 1821,” Edinburgh Review 35, no. 71 (July 1821): 519. Gardiner’s, 48, Pall-Mall, at the Ready Money Prices Affixed (london: Printed by J. Barker, 1809) (all details as in 1808, Wollstonecraft, Mary, above). † Original Stories from Real Life (1791, 1796) 1810. A Catalogue of a Small Collection of Ancient and Modern edition Books, Selected with the Greatest Care, and Containing Many Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories with Five Illustrations Curious and Rare Articles, for Sale at W. Gardiner’s, 48, Pall- by William Blake with an Introduction by E. V. Lucas. 1906, Mall, at the Ready Money Prices Affixed (london: Printed 1977. c. §Original Stories. With by J. Barker, 1810) 47, 80 (lot “691 Young’s Night Thoughts, Five Illustrations by William Blake with an Introduction by E. curious cuts, by Blake, boards, £1 5s — — 1796”; lot “1213 V. Lucas. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 132 pp.; ISBN: Young’s Night Thoughts, with engravings by Mr. Blake, fol. 9781152567252. boards, £1 5s — — 1797 This is one of the most singular and eccentric works that ever appeared”). † Young, edward, Night Thoughts (1797) §A Catalogue (Part the First for 1810) of a Curious and Valu- New location: National library of Denmark. able Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature and Including Also a Small but Select Collection of Sales and collection records, 1798-184058 Oriental Manuscripts: Which Are Now Selling for Ready Money A Catalogue of Rare, Splendid, and Valuable Books, in Every at the Prices Affixed by W[illiam] Ford (Manchester: Printed by c. Wheeler and Son, 1810) (“Night Thoughts on life, 58. records marked † are also reported in Wayne c. ripley, “Printed Death and Immortality, with the singular designs round the references to and Known Prices of Blake’s Night Thoughts, 1796-1826,” margins by BlAKe, calf cleg. ib. …”). † Blake 43.2 (fall 2009): 72-75. The unseen (§) entries derive from him. A Catalogue (Part the Second for 1810-11) of a Curious and

18 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes copies have coloured plates”). of Literature … Which Are Now Selling, for Ready Money, at No. XIX. london, 1836. A Select Catalogue of Books, Form- the Prices Affixed to Each Article by W. Ford, Bookseller (Man- ing Part of the Stock of Francis MacPherson, 4 Middle Row, chester: Printed by c. Wheeler and Son, 1811) (lot “15431 Holborn (“Young’s Night Thoughts; with marginal Designs by Young’s complaint, and the consolation; or Night thoughts Blake. Folio, boards, 1l. 11s. 6d.—1797”). with Blake’s singular designs round the text. ib. [london] Catalog von Kunstsachen und Büchern welche in der Anstalt 1797.—Blair’s Grave, with engravings from the designs für Kunst und Literatur (R. Weigel) in Leipzig vorräthig oder of Blake. large paper. eleg. bd. in blue mor. &c. 8l 8s. ib. durch dieselbe besorgt werden, part 7 (leipzig, 1838) 23 (in 1808”). † German) (lists Young’s Night Thoughts by Blake). Co’s General Catalogue, for the Year 1811 (lot “264 Young’s Night Thoughts, finely printed, with curious plates, designed Section B: Collections and Selections and etched by Blake, first 4 Books, bds. 2l. 10s. 1797”; “6569 Young’s Night Thoughts, (first four nights of) finely printed, *Butterworth, Adeline M. William Blake, Mystic. 1911. B. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 98 pp.; ISBN: † 9781171519058. Lackington, Allen, and Co’s General Catalogue of Books, for the Year 1815 (1815) (lot 119, “finely printed, with curious plates, Appendix: Books Improbably Alleged designed and etched by Blake,” £2.2.0). to Have Blake Engravings Librorum Impressorum, Qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur, Catalogus, vol. 7 (london, 1819) n. pag. (“YOUNG (edw.) d.d. Hume, David, The History of England … The complaint and the consolation or Night Thoughts, (london: robert Bowyer, 1793-1806) with marginal Designs by Mr. Blake. fol. lond. 1797”). † Bowyer’s edition of Hume’s History of England appeared in the §e. and A. evans, Bookseller’s and Printseller’s Catalogue (lon- Oracle for 30 Jan. 1792. The work was to appear “in Num- don, 1820) (lot “421 Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of Young’s bers,” “Superbly Ornamented,” but there is no indication of Night Thoughts, 4to. bds. 30s. — 1797”; “566 Young’s Night how many numbers or engravings. The “Gentlemen … actu- Thoughts, with numerous fine plates by William Blake, fol. ally engaged” include “W. Blake” among engravers.59 Bds. 1l. 1s. — — 1797”). † Friedrich Adolf ebert, Allgemeines Bibliographisches Lexikon, Part IV: Catalogues and Bibliographies vol. 1 (1821) (in German). 1843 21 February [Thomas] Edwards’s Catalogue (Halifax, 1821) (lot 16 [“many [Sotheby] Catalogue of the Second Portion of the Extensive fine plates by Blake,” gilt edges, £2.2.0]). Singularly Curious and Valuable Library of Thomas Jolley, Esq. A Catalogue of … Books, (Selected from the Stock in Trade) of F.S.A. Containing the First Division of … the Early English Po- Mr. Thomas Edwards … Auction, by Messrs. Thomas Winstan- ets …. 1843. ley & Co. … Manchester (May 1826) (lots 1076 [Blake’s Night lot 336 is “Blake (William) Poetical Sketches Privately * * Thoughts drawings] and 1224 [half bound, blue russia]). [6d. to the dealer rodd]. This may be copy Q, though it could The English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrang- equally well be K, M, or V-Y.60 The catalogue was discovered ham (1826) 626 (“Young’s Night Thoughts I-IV [i.e., part 1] by robert N. essick in 2010 while he was browsing in the with Marginal engravings by W. Blake 1797,” listed under Huntington stacks. quartos). A Catalogue of the … Library of the Late George Edward 1864 Griffiths, Esq. …. Together with … the Property of a Well Bernard Quaritch. A Catalogue of Books …. 1864. Known Amateur of the Fine Arts [Thomas Griffiths Waine- 6521 “BlAKIANA.” Ms. life of Blake “extracted from cun- wright] (Aug. 1831) (lot 1746). ningham’s lives … Illustrated with numerous specimens Catalogue of the Fifth and Concluding Portion of the Valuable of his works … including portions of his ‘Songs of Inno- and Extensive Library of P. A. Hanrott, Esq. …Which Will Be cence and experience;’ ‘Book of ;’ ‘europe, a Proph- Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans (Mar. 1834) (lot “1245 Young’s ecy;’ ‘Books of Thel and Urizen;’ ‘[For the Sexes: The] Gates Night Thoughts, plates by Blake,—1797”). of Paradise;’ ‘The elements’ [?For the Sexes pls. 4-7 (“Water,” William Thomas lowndes,The Bibliographer’s Manual of Eng- lish Literature …, vol. 2 (london: William Pickering, 1834) 59. The advertisement was pointed out to me by Mark crosby. Adver- 1999 (edward Young, “The complaint or Night Thoughts. tisements in the Oracle for 13-14 Jan. and 6 Feb. were already recorded. … With marginal Designs by Blake. london, 1797. fol. Some 60. copy Y is the newly recorded copy owned by robert N. essick.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 19 “earth,” “Air,” “Fire”)]; ‘canterbury Pilgrimage,’ the large and vols. (2 folio, 1 royal octavo), “red morocco extra, with flaps scarce print, etc. in all 114 plates, some duplicates in different like portfolios,” £1,200. states and tinted by the artist: also 14 portraits of the artist; It consists of his friends, and contemporaries, including a portrait of Comus, 8 designs “mounted to the size of 11 in. by 8½ in.” thomas Hayley, an Original Drawing, by W. Blake: a [Butlin #528]. Manuscript Index to the Songs of Innocence, believed to be Paradise Lost, 9 designs “mounted to the size of 28 in. by 20 in the autograph of the artist: list of Original Drawings and in.” [Butlin #536 3-9, 11-12]. Sketches sold by auction in 1862 [perhaps the Sotheby sale of Biblical designs, “mounted to the size of 22 in. by 17½ in.,” viz. 29 Apr. 1862, Blake lots 158-202 ], with the prices “Famine” [Butlin #196]; “Plague” [Butlin #193]; “Pestilence” realised, etc. in 1 vol. impl. 4to. hf. bound, crimson morocco. [Butlin #442]; “Moses and the Bronze Serpent” [Butlin #447]; … £21.” “Golia[t]h and David meeting” [Butlin #457]; “The King of 6522 Thel [J], motto, title, and 6 designs; Visions [G], 11 de- Babylon moving to Hell” [Butlin #467]; “The Whirlwind, signs; “in one volume, roy. 4to. olive morocco, gilt edges, by ezekiel’s Vision” [Butlin #468]; “The Woman caught in adul- c. lewis, £15. 15s,” “The cuts in both pieces coloured in the tery” [Butlin #486]; “Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac” [Butlin artist’s peculiar style.” #109] with, around the margins, heads of [various] [Butlin 6523 Dante, 7 prints. #84]. 9032 “BlAKe (William) [For the Sexes:] the Gates of 13843 Forty sketches from “the tatham collection,” “in pencil Paradise [G], impl. 4to. large paper, hf. morocco, gilt top, or chalk (two or three of them washed in colour) with MS. uncut, £6. 15s. consisting of twenty engraved leaves, the first inscriptions by Frederic[k] tatham; mounted on 23 leaves being the title with an etching headed ‘for the Sexes,’ …. The of cardboard, and enclosed in a portfolio, hf. red morocco” second is the frontispiece …,” “2 leaves containing an epilogue [Butlin #79, 81, 96-97, 103, 150, 177, 205, 211, 218, 228, 339, … ‘to the Accuser ….’” 369-73, 592, 598-99, 622, 643, 678, 756, 759, 788-89, 792-96, 816, 819, 824, 830-32, 834, r10] plus Mrs. Blake, “a Face in the 1878 29 January Fire” [Butlin #c2], and 4 Wedgwood proofs, £36. Sotheby sale of A. G. Dew-Smith, 29-30 Jan. 1878. 13844 “Joseph of Arimathea among the rocks of Albion” [l] The sale includedAmerica (B), Visions (N), and Blake’s copy (1773), “this is one of the Gothick Artists …,” 10" x 5½", £4. of Swedenborg’s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788). 13845 Thel [J] and Visions [G] bound together, colored, “olive review morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hering,” £85, “fetched, 1881, [a]t §Academy (9 Feb. 1878) (Visions [N] sold for £30 and America christies £85 and was priced by the dealer who bought it [B] for £16.5.0). £105.” 13846 “chaucers canterbury Pilgrims,” £7.10.0. 1879 March 13847 Forty-five engravings “from the Flaxman collection,” Bernard Quaritch. No. 322. Catalogue of English Literature. “including some early pieces of 1800 [perhaps Hayley’s “little Mar. 1879. (see illus. 3 online) tom” (1800) or his Essay on Sculpture (1800)], the Portraits 12893 eleven letters from Blake to Hayley, 26 Nov. 1800-4 of Mr. and Mrs. William cowper [presumably Blake’s engrav- June 1805, £52.10.0. ings for Hayley’s Cowper (1803), frontispiece of cowper after 12894 “A Projected Work: Original Design (considerably romney in vol. 1 or the frontispiece after lawrence in vol. 2, different from the published engraving): plus “Mrs cOWPer | Mother of the Poet” in vol. 1, at p. 4],”61 ‘Piping down the valleys wild, £3.16.0. Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, 1883 October And he laughing said to me:’— Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts …. 5 verses of 4 lines each, on 1 leaf [Songs pl. 4] Oct. 1883. , a frontispiece 1 ” [Songs pl. 2] 10249 Three drawings for Songs: “Introduction” to Inno- An ideal Hell 1 ” [Butlin #217] cence, “The Shepherd” (frontispiece to Innocence), and “An —the three Drawings in Blake’s usual rich style of co- ideal Hell” [Butlin #217], “From the collection of a friend of louring, executed circa 1820, £10 Blake’s,” £10. From the collection of a friend of Blake’s.” 10250 Songs [U] from the Beckford collection, £170. 10251 America [r], £36. 1883 10 August 10252 The manuscript of cunningham’sLife of Blake with 103 Bernard Quaritch. No. 350. Catalogue of Some More Works on engravings, with a manuscript index to the Songs, £80. the Fine Arts; Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Miniatures and 10253 Young’s Night Thoughts (1797), £12. Fine Specimens of Bookbinding Chiefly Obtained from Private Sources. 10 Aug. 1883. (see illus. 4 online) 61. The other prints might have included some from Flaxman’s Naval 13842 Blake drawings, “the Butts collection,” 26 paintings, 3 Pillar (1799), 3 pls., Homer, Iliad (1805), 3 pls., and Hesiod (1817), 37 pls.

20 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 10254 Blair, The Grave (1808), £5.5.0. *Alexander Gourlay (see Blake 43.3 in Part VI). 10255 Dante proofs with “2 portraits of Dante and MS. de- §*Andrew lambirth, Art Book 17.2 (2010): 73-74. scriptions added,” £10.10.0 [I have no other record of this]. 10256 Job (1825), £16.16.0. 2009 11 September–2010 3 January 10257 Works (1876), £4.4.0. William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun.” Morgan 10258 “A collection of [11] Books illustrated with Blake’s library and Museum, New York. Plates,” £28. reviews63 10259 Gilchrist (1880), 35s. *evan Mantyk, “Blake’s Anti-Atheism on Display at Morgan li- 12295 Descriptive Catalogue [F], “green morocco extra, from brary,” Epoch Times 10 Sept. 2009 . 13842 Drawings from the Butts collection: Comus, Paradise *lance esplund, “Artist as Oracle: The Morgan’s exhibition Lost, the Bible, £1,200. of the work of William Blake reminds us of the artist’s many 13843 tatham collection, 40 drawings on 23 leaves, £36. gifts,” City Arts 15 Sept. 2009 . 13844 “Joseph of Arimathea” [l], £4. *Jill Krementz, “Photo Journal: William Blake’s World,” New 13845 Thel [J] bound with Visions [G], £85. York Social Diary 15 Sept. 2009 (32 reproductions). £7.10.0. *Anon., AO Art Observed 17 Sept. 2009 . £3.16.0. *Beatrice V. Thornton, “William Blake at the Morgan li br ar y,” 13848 Gilchrist (1880), 35s. Magazine Antiques 17 Sept. 2009 . 1890 23 April–1 May Arielle concilio, “William Blake and the Imagination at the [Sotheby] Catalogue of a Portion of the Important Library of Morgan library and Museum,” Columbia Daily Spectator 22 Thomas Gaisford, Esq. Sept. 2009 The Thomas Gaisford whose bookplate is in America (B), [arts blog]. Thel (c), Europe (e), Urizen (c), Poetical Sketches (N), Inno- *Drew toal, “William Blake’s World: ‘A New Heaven Is Be- cence (H), Songs (M), Visions (I), and Young’s Night Thoughts gun,’” Time Out New York 24-30 Sept. 2009 . as in the BB index, but his son with the same name (b. 1816).62 *Anon., “William Blake’s World: ‘A New Heaven Is Begun’ at the Morgan library,” artrepublic.com Sept. 2009 . *robert N. essick. The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Anon., “Blake Illuminations at Morgan,” Northport Journal 8 Catalogue. 1983. Oct. 2009. For addenda, see Blake 43.4 in Part VI. *Anon., Week 16 Oct. 2009 . *Graham Fuller, “extreme Blake,” Arts Desk 18 Oct. 2009 1991 . *robert N. essick. William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustra- *World Journal 24 Oct. 2009 tions. 1991. (in Japanese). For addenda, see Blake 43.4 in Part VI. *Thomas Micchelli, “William Blake’s World: ‘A New Heaven Is Begun,’” Brooklyn Rail Oct. 2009 . *Martin Myrone, ed. Seen in My Visions: A Descriptive Cata- *Marjorie Welish, “extreme Art: The creative talent of Wil- logue of Pictures. 2009. liam Blake and eighteenth-century French drawings are at the reviews Morgan library,” New York Observer 9 Nov. 2009. robin Blake, “William Blake at tate Britain,” Financial Times *chloe Malle, “William Blake’s Heavenly Imagination,” Daily 25 Apr. 2009 (“the tate’s tribute to the most Beast 12 Nov. 2009 . lovable of all english artists … is rather melancholy, and very *Anon., “William Blake @ the Morgan: tyger, tyger!” eCo- touching”). gnoscente [New York] Nov. 2009 . dependent [london] 27 Apr. 2009 (largely *Greta Berman, “William Blake: Praise the lord with Stringed about robert Hunt’s review). Instruments,” Juilliard Journal 25.3 (Nov. 2009).

62. Joseph Viscomi, “two Fake Blakes revisited” (see Blake in Our 63. reviews of the exhibition only (there was no catalogue), omitting Time, under Mulhallen in Part VI) 70n11. mere notices.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 21 *Peggy roalf, “William Blake: Sympathy for the Devil,” Design Studies and the legacy of G. e. Bentley Jr (28 Aug. 2010), or- Arts Daily 8 Dec. 2009 . ganized by Karen Mulhallen, and the launch of Blake in Our *Menachem Wecker, “Did William Blake Know Hebrew?” Time: Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley Jr, ed. Karen Mulhal- Jewish Daily Forward 11 Dec. 2009 ). Podcasts in video and audio of the symposium and *Michaelanthony Mitchell, “William Blake at the Morgan,” still photos of the exhibition are available online . library.vicu.utoronto.ca/blake_in_our_time/podcasts.html>. *Morton D. Paley (see Blake 43.4 in Part VI). The symposium part consists of: *Anon., ArtMagick (date unknown) . robert N. essick. “collecting Blake.” (About great collectors richard Goodman, Fine Books and Collections (date un- of the past, not about his own major collection.) known), 5 pp. Joseph Viscomi. “recovering the earliest Versions of Blake’s Oddest Book.” (About The Song of Los.) 2009 12 September–2010 3 January Mary lynn Johnson. “Blake’s Pictures at ‘The Salterns’ and Michael Phillips and the Infernal Method of William Blake. How captain Butts challenged His Sister’s Inheritance.” cornell Fine Arts Museum, rollins college. Angus Whitehead. “Blake and George cumberland’s ‘Pock- review etbooks.’” James rovira (see Blake 44.3 in Part VI). John e. Grant. “Songs for Thomas Butts: Visions of the ‘title Page,’ ‘earth’s Answer’ and ‘.’” 2010 19 June–10 July Dennis read. “Disputing the Sins of His Father: Thomas *William Blake: engravings for the Book of Job and Other cromek contra Gilchrist.” Prints. larkhall Fine Art ltd. (Bath). Garry leonard. “Without contraries Is No Progression: Did exhibition with only an invitation card. Blake Invent Modernist cinema?” Stephen Nachmanovitch. “Job returns—A Music and Mul- 2010 3 August–2 October timedia Meditation on Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job.” *[Karen Mulhallen]. Remember Me! Blake in Our Time: A (Introduced by Brian corman.) Keepsake Book in Celebration of an Exhibition and Symposium Mark crosby. “Blake’s Seal[s].” (The images with which he on the Life and Art of William Blake (1757-1827) [at] Victo- sealed his letters.) ria University, Toronto. [toronto: Victoria University, 2010]. Keri Davies. “Brother Blake and Sister Blake and the lost Horizontal 8o, 64 pp., 38 reproductions, 61 exhibits; ISBN: Moravian History of William Blake’s Family.” 9780986707100 (see illus. 5 online). Susanne Sklar. “The Mouth of atrue Orator: Jerusalem’s Op- The exhibition focuses particularly on works acquired since erating Instructions.” the gift (2005) of the Bentley collection of Blake and his con- temporaries (see the Victoria University exhibition of 30 Oct.- Part V: Books Owned by William Blake the Poet 15 Dec. 2006 ), including the extra-illustrated Bray, Life of Thomas Stothard (1851) (see pp. 13, 22, 24-25), Newly recorded title Diario de los niños (1839-40) (pp. 16-17), Varley, Zodiacal title page: tHe | MYStIcAl INItIAtIONS; | Or, | HYMNS Physiognomy (1828) (pp. 18-19), Stothard, “The Fall of rosa- | OF | OrPHeUS | trANSlAteD FrOM tHe OrIGINAl mond” (1783) (pp. 22-23), Watteau, “Morning [and] evening | GreeK: | WItH A PrelIMINArY DISSertAtION | ON Amusement” (1782) (pp. 26-28), Morland, “The Idle laun- tHe | life and theology of O rpheus; | BY | tHOMAS dress” and “The Industrious cottager” (pp. 29-31), “chaucers tAYlOr. | [Greek motto] | lONDON, | PrINteD for the canterbury Pilgrims” (1810) (pp. 34, 36-37), “Spring” (pp. AUtHOr, | And ſold by t. Payne and Son, at the Mews-gate; 46-47), and Remember Me! (1824, two copies, one with the l. | Davis, Holborn; B. White and Son, Fleet-ſtreet; and | G. rare color-printed slipcase) (pp. 52-55). Marriage (M) is re- Nichol, Strand. 1787.64 produced entire. location: Bodleian library, Arch. H e.181. The undated draft letter by William Hayley addressed to History: Offered “newly bound in calf ” at £2.2.0 in Bernard “Dear Poet & Philosopher” (laid into a copy of Hayley’s Tri- Quaritch’s Catalogue (no. 414) (london, Feb. 1928);65 “Bt. umphs of Temper [1803]) was almost certainly sent to eras- mus Darwin, not “to William Blake” (p. 21). The letter recom- mends “my excellent friend Flaxman who is just returned [in 64. My transcription derives from the copy in the rylands library, 1794] from rome” as a sculptor for a monument to Wedg- University of Manchester, via Eighteenth Century Collections Online, not wood (Flaxman’s monument to Wedgwood is in Stoke-on- from the copy in the Bodleian. 65. It does not appear in Quaritch’s Catalogue (no. 410) (Oct. 1927), trent church). which lists many other books by taylor, suggesting that it was newly ac- The exhibition and catalogue were associated with Blake quired by Quaritch in 1928. The Quaritch catalogue does not mention in Our time: A Symposium celebrating the Future of Blake the annotations.

22 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 from Quaritch” (according to an inscription on the front Part VI: Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies pastedown) by the Bodleian library, where it was stamped 29 Sept. 1928. Its Blake associations were first noticed by Philip Adams, Hazard. Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism and cardinale in 2001 and recorded by Philip and Joseph cardi- Liberal Education. 1990. nale in Blake 44.3 (winter 2010-11): 84-102, the source of al- For a revised version of chapter 4, see Blake’s Margins, below. most all the information here. Binding: Bound, probably in 1928, in brown calf. *Adams, Hazard. Blake’s Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations and underlinings: There are annotations on pp. Annotations. 2009. 4o, 204 pp.; ISBN: 9780786445363. 225, and underscoring and sidebars on pp. iv-v, vii-viii, 1-3, It consists of chapters on Blake’s annotations to (1) lavater, 5-6, 9-10, 14-15, 19-22, 26-28, 30, 44-47, 68, 70-72, 75-76, 78- Aphorisms (7-27); (2) Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, Divine 79, 84, and 97. “All the handwriting and most of the under- Love, and Divine Providence (28-60); (3) Watson, Apology lining … appear in orange-brown ink; some underlining and (61-80); (4) Bacon, Essays (81-96); (5) Dante, Inferno, trans. markings are in a darker, brown-black shade of ink. Pencil Boyd (97-108); (6) reynolds, Discourses (109-38); (7) Spur- marks appear on pages 14, 30, 44, 68, 70, and 97” (cardinale zheim, Insanity (139-49); (8) Berkeley, Siris (150-59); (9) and cardinale 85). The only extensive note says: Wordsworth, Poems and preface to The Excursion (160-76); There is no instance of a poet writing good eng. (10) Thornton, Lord’s Prayer (177-92); plus (11) “Addendum” Blank verse who has not also written good (193-94) and (12) “A Note on Blake’s reading” (195-97). rhyme: but many have written good rhyme earlier versions of chapter 6 appeared as “revisiting who have shewn no capability of writing. good reynold[s]’s Discourses and Blake’s Annotations,” Blake in His Blank verse — Time, ed. robert N. essick and Donald Pearce (1978) and in his Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism (?1784-85) strongly suggests that the hand which wrote the and Liberal Education (1990) . annotations in taylor’s book is that of William Blake, and the reviews two inks used in underlining are much like those Blake used. Jason Whittaker, Zoamorphosis: The Blake 2.0 Blog 16 Feb. 2010 (“there is little that is spe- is much more speculative but still plausible. cifically new or innovative,” but it is useful on the context). There were reviews in Critical Review 63 (June 1787): 401- §Morton D. Paley, New Books on Literature 19 22 May 2010. Magazine, and London Review 12 (July 1787): 18-19 (5s.; “Mr. Shirley Dent, Times Literary Supplement 2 July 2010: 26-27 taylor hath displayed no common erudition”; “we warmly (with another) (it is his “close and unswerving attention to recommend the ‘Dissertation’”; “though Mr. taylor may not what Blake has to say” that makes the book “so rewarding”). be ranked very high as a poetical translator, he may be placed in no inferior station among the proficients in abstruser litera- §*Adams, Hazard. William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: ture”); Monthly Review 79 (Aug. 1788): 133-42. A Study of A Descriptive catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem. Jefferson: McFarland & company, 2010 (copy- Appendix: Books Owned by the Wrong William Blake right 2011). 199 pp.; ISBN: 9780786449866.

Bible §Alves, Andrea lima. “A interação entre texto e ilustrações §The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and nos illuminated books de William Blake pelo prisma da obra New Testaments. london: e. Newbery, 1780. America, a Prophecy [The Interaction between text and Il- A copy is inscribed in ink in “the same juvenile hand” on lustration in the Illuminated Books of William Blake through the front and rear pastedowns “a a Blake” and “W Blake.” rob- His Work America, a Prophecy].” Universidade estadual de ert N. essick, to whom the work was offered in Nov. 2010 by campinas PhD, 2007. In Portuguese. Maggs, concludes that it is “very unlikely that these inscrip- tions … are by the poet and artist.”66 let us assume charitably Anon. [under Blake (1758-1828)]. Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon that they are by one of the host of contemporary individuals der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Vol. 2. Altenburg: Verlags- named “William Blake” or “W. Blake.”67 buchhandlung von H. A. Pierer, 1857. 841. In German.

§Anon. Art by William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 107 pp.; ISBN: 9781155319315. Not illustrated.

66. essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 125. Anon. “Attack and Defence of Swedenborg in the chelten- 67. See “‘My Name is legion: for we are many’: ‘William Blake’ in lon- ham examiner.” Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem don 1740-1830,” BR(2) 829-45. Magazine 5, no. 60 (Nov. 1839): 663.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 23 The attack in the Cheltenham Examiner, 4 Sept. 1839, as- 2010. 30 pp.; ISBN: 9781153608565. In French. sumes that the new edition of Blake’s Songs is “a fair specimen It consists of entries from Wikipedia. of what ‘Swedenborgianism’ truly is.” A reply by “A Sweden- borgian” is in the issue for 18 Sept., but it does not point out Anon. “William Blake: The Illustrator of The Grave, &c.” Lit- “that Swedenborg and his doctrines are in no degree answer- erary Gazette (1827) able for the phantasies and absurdities of Blake,” whose “child- This appeared, seemingly word for word, in the Standard ish” poems should be called “Songs of Silliness and Diseased [london] 18 Aug. 1827. Perception.” §Anon. Works Inspired by William Blake. [Memphis]: Gen- Anon. “Blake, Katharine.” Sarah Josepha Hale. Woman’s eral Books, 2010. 40 pp.; ISBN: 9781156203736. Record; or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from “The It consists of entries from Wikipedia. Beginning” till A.D. 1850. 1853. B. … from the Creation to A.D. 1854. New York: Harper & §Basan, F. Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes. 2nd Brothers, 1855. c. … A.D. 1868. New York: Harper & Broth- ed. Paris: c hez l’ Auteur, cuchet, et Prault, 1789. 1: 70. B. ers, 1870. D. Biography of Distinguished Women; or, Woman’s F. Basan. Supplément au dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et Record, from the Creation to A.D. 1869. New York: Harper & modernes. 1791. c. P. F. and H. l. Basan. Dic- Brothers, 1876. e. 1970. tionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes. 2nd ed. 1809. ly” [cunningham ¶10]; Blake died in 1828 and “she died a few The first edition of theDictionnaire (1767) had no Blake en- years afterwards.” try. The entry in the 1789 edition is the same as those in 1791 and 1809, “except for minor differences in punctuation and Anon. “Britain’s tate Unveils Mislaid Blake etchings.” Ya- spelling,” according to robert N. essick, “Blake in the Market- hoo! News canada 11 Jan. 2010 [AFP news agency]. . The tate “unveiled Monday eight ‘powerful’ etchings by … §Beer, John. “Blake’s Poetry and Prophecies.” The Cambridge William Blake, which lay undiscovered for decades before History of English Poetry. ed. Michael O’Neill. cambridge: turning up at a second-hand book sale” “tucked inside a rail- cambridge University Press, 2010. way timetable in a box of books.” They were bought by the tate for £441,000 with the help of the Art Fund. The vendor *Bentley, G. e., Jr. “Pictura Ignota: Blake’s Most Seen, least “has asked to remain anonymous.” They “will go on public Known Painting.” Descant 41.4 (winter 2010): 73-103. display” at the tate in July and will then “travel to the Pushkin The *painting (1812) is the inn sign, perhaps 6' x 8', for the State Museum of Fine Art in Moscow in November 2011 for courtyard of the talbot (formerly tabard) Inn in Southwark the exhibition William Blake and British Visionary Art.” representing “chaucer and his merry company setting out [from the inn] on their journey” to canterbury (see illus. Anon. [Miss Flaxman]. “John Flaxman, esq. P.S. r.A.” Gen- 6 online). The sign, visible for 60 years, was repeatedly de- tleman’s Magazine 97.1 (Mar. 1827): 273-76; (May 1827): 472. scribed and ascribed to Blake in the nineteenth century, but An obituary consisting mostly of a list of monuments. “His has been forgotten since then. Another painting hung “over illustrations of Hesiod were made after his return to england. the gateway” representing chaucer may also have been by The original drawings remain in the possession of his sisters; Blake. and engravings from them, by W. Blake, were published in 1816 [i.e., 1817]” (273). Bentley, G. e., Jr. William Blake’s Conversations. 2008. §Anon. Poetry by William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, review 2010. 165 pp.; ISBN: 9781155789132. Mark lussier, University of Toronto Quarterly 79.1 (winter A collection of notes about Blake’s poems from Wikipedia. 2010): 427-28 (with its “superb introduction,” written in an “engaging style,” “Bentley’s William Blake’s Conversations will *Anon. “William Blake etchings Secured for the Nation: join his other foundational works in exerting an enabling in- eight etchings by William Blake have been acquired for the fluence on future research”). nation after the tate gallery raised £441,000.” BBC News 11 Jan. 2010. . §Bjelogrlić, Aleksandar. “Blejk na pragu novog doba [Blake They are from the Small Book of Designs (B). at the Threshold of the New Age].” Nevidljivi arhipelag. Bel- grade: Praizvorni Zivot, 1994. 15-29. In Serbian. §Anon. William Blake Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer, And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time, Urizen, Grand Dragon Rouge, Mythologie de William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books,

24 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Volume 43, number 3 (winter 2009-10) Volume 44, number 1 (summer 2010) Angus Whitehead. “Mark and eleanor Martin, the Blakes’ G. e. Bentley, Jr., with the assistance of Hikari Sato for Japa- French Fellow Inhabitants at 17 South Molton Street, 1805- nese publications. “William Blake and His circle: A check- 21.” 84-95. (Wonderfully rich “new information concerning list of Publications and Discoveries in 2009.” 4-48. (The 269 Martin, his wife, his nationality, and his trade” [84].) previously unrecorded references to Blake before 1863 helped reviews swell the checklist to fill the whole issue, and even so the *Alexander Gourlay. William Blake’s 1809 exhibition, tate introduction was severely curtailed, some entries were con- Britain, 20 Apr.-4 Oct. 2009; Martin Myrone, ed., Seen in My flated or postponed, and the customary “Addenda and cor- Visions: A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures. 96-100. (The ex- rigenda to Blake Records, 2nd ed. (2004), … now appear on hibition “is no more successful than the original … in com- the journal’s web site …. They will be updated yearly” [4]. The municating Blake’s ideas” [96].) most remarkable discovery [by David Alexander] is the ap- Nancy M. Goslee. Matthew J. A. Green, Visionary Material- prenticeship record [1788] of Thomas Owen to William Blake ism in the Early Works of William Blake (2005). 100-04. (“The [5].) struggle to understand his study is well worth the time” [104].) Minute Particulars Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Morton D. Paley. “‘And the sun dial by Blake’ (Butlin #374A).” Volume 44, number 2 (fall 2010) 105-06. (About a lost drawing by Blake.) *Mark crosby and robert N. essick. “‘the fiends of com- G. e. Bentley, Jr. “Blake copperplates in the Thomas ross Ar- merce’: Blake’s letter to William Hayley, 7 August 1804.” chive.” 107-08. (The copperplates in the archive of the print- 52-72. (Blake’s newly discovered letter is reproduced, tran- publishing firm of Thomas ross are almost certainly copies of scribed, and most impressively annotated.) Blake’s plates, not the originals.) review Wayne c. ripley. “The early Marketing of The Grave in lon- Jason Whittaker. Nicholas M. Williams, ed., Palgrave Ad- don and Boston.” 109-10. (About puffs by cromek inUniver - vances in William Blake Studies (2006). 73-75. (It “offers a sal Magazine [July 1806], Monthly Magazine [Aug. 1806], and fairly comprehensive view of critical approaches to Blake in Monthly Anthology [Oct. 1806].) the early twenty-first century” [73].) Nelson Hilton. “Waxed in Blake.” 110-11. (The first stanza Minute Particular of Bob Dylan’s “Gates of eden” strongly recalls Marriage pls. *Paul Miner. “Blake’s Design of .” 75-78. 17-18.) (One source of Marriage pl. 24, first suggested by Frederick York Powell, “Blake’s etchings,” Academy 7 [16 Jan. 1875]: Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 66, but later ignored, is probably in le Sieur de royaumont Volume 43, number 4 (spring 2010) [Nicolas Fontaine], The History of the Old and New Testament *robert N. essick. “Blake in the Marketplace, 2009.” 116- [1691, 1701, 1703, 1705, etc., in english, 1670 in French].) 48. (enormously impressive, comprehensive, and detailed. It includes an “Appendix: New Information on Blake’s engrav- Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly ings” for his The Separate Plates of William Blake [1983] and Volume 44, number 3 (winter 2010-11) William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations [1991] [148].) *Philip J. cardinale and Joseph r. cardinale. “A Newly Dis- review covered Blake Book: William Blake’s copy of Thomast aylor’s *Morton D. Paley. William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is The Mystical Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus (1787).” 84- Begun,” Morgan library and Museum, 11 Sept. 2009-3 Jan. 102. (An admirably argued demonstration that the annota- 2010. 149-51. (A “major exhibition”; “Although there is no tions in a copy of taylor’s book in the Bodleian are in a hand catalogue, the entire exhibition is posted on the Morgan web “strikingly similar” to that in An Island in the Moon [?1784- site” [151].) 85], and the extensive underlinings and sidebars in similar remembrance inks are probably also by Blake. color versions of pp. vii-viii “Karl Kroeber, 1926-2009.” 151. (reprinted from Philip are reproduced at .) Petrov, “Karl Kroeber, or living and Dying in the Present,” reviews Columbia Spectator 12 Nov. 2009: 4.) *robert N. essick. Martin Butlin, ed., William Blake’s Water- Newsletter colour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair Anon. “conference in Oxford … and in toronto.” 151. (2009); Michael Phillips, ed., Songs of Innocence and of Expe- (Blake, Gender, and Sexuality in the twenty-First century is rience: A Portfolio of eighteen Facsimile Impressions (2009). organized by Helen Bruder and tristanne connolly, 15-16 July 103-10. (“The reproductions of the twenty Grave watercolors 2010, at St. Aldate’s church, Oxford, and Blake in Our time, are excellent” [104], and the Flying Horse edition “is certainly organized by Karen Mulhallen, “will celebrate the future of a handsome object” [106].) Blake studies and the legacy of G. e. Bentley, Jr., on 28 August James rovira. Michael Phillips and the Infernal Method of 2010 at Victoria University in the University of toronto.”) William Blake, cornell Fine Arts Museum, rollins college,

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 25 12 Sept. 2009-3 Jan. 2010. 110-11. (The exhibition included 40-49. (About “jouissance, meaning enjoyment” [40], i.e., Phillips’s reproductions of copperplates and prints from them masturbation.) of Songs [18 plates and prints], America pl. 1, Europe [5], and 3. *Peter Otto. “Drawing lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Per- “inking daubers, historical pigments …”; “Illustrations of the formance in The Four Zoas.” 50-62. (About Swedenborg and exhibition and of some of the Phillips copperplates and im- the illustrations on Four Zoas pp. 40, 112.) pressions are online at … .”) 4. elizabeth c. effinger. “Anal Blake: Bringing Up the rear in Blakean criticism.” 63-73. §Blake, David, and elliott Gruner. “redeeming captivity: 5. *Martin Myrone. “The Body of the Blasphemer.” 74-86. The Negative revolution of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters (About Blake’s picture of the stoning of the blasphemer.) of Albion.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary 6. Jason Whittaker. “trannies,68 Amputees and Disco Queens: Relations 1.1 (1997): 21-34. Blake and contemporary Queer Art.” 87-96. 7. Helen P. Bruder. “‘real Acting’: ‘Felpham Billy’ and Gray- §Bogoeva, ljiljana. “Blejk i nadolazece vreme [Blake and the son Perry try It On.” 97-115. (About the “Pickering Manu- Future].” Student no. 6 (Mar. 1973). In Serbian. script” and Felpham; Perry is a “peerless transvestite” [97].) 8. tristanne connolly. “‘Fear not / to unfold your dark vi- §Bogoeva, ljiljana. “U traganju za identitetom: Primer Vilija- sions of torment’: Blake and emin’s Bad Sex Aesthetic.” 116- ma Blejka i Vilijama Butlera Jejtsa [In Search of Identity: ex- 39. (tracey emin is an artist and poet.) amples of William Blake and William Butler Yeats].” Gradina 9. Bethan Stevens. “‘Woes & … sighs’: Fantasies of Slavery in 9 (1980): 44-53. In Serbian. Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” 140-52. 10. caroline Jackson-Houlston. “‘The lineaments of … de- Boldina, Alla. “Androgynous Imagination in romantic and sire’: Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion and romantic Modernist literature: From William Blake and elizabeth Bar- literary treatments of rape.” 153-62. rett Browning to D. H. lawrence and H. D.” State University 11. *Steve clark. “‘Yet I am an identity / I wish & feel & weep of New York (Binghamton) PhD, 2007. & groan’: Blake’s Sentimentalism as (Peri)Performative.” 163- It was published in her book (see below). 85. 12. David Fallon. “‘By a False Wife Brought to the Gates of §Boldina, Alla. Androgynous Imagination of Difference: From Death’: Blake, Politics and transgendered Performances.” William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to D. H. Law- 186-98. rence and H. D. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. 13. Mark crosby. “‘No Boys Work’: Blake, Hayley and the tri- ISBN: 9783836461788. umphs of (Intellectual) Paiderastia.” 199-208. (About Hayley’s Apparently derived from her thesis (see above). teaching boys such as the sons of the earl of egremont and e. G. Marsh, as well as Blake.) Borkowska, eliza. But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body: 14. Susan Matthews. “‘Hayley on his toilette’: Blake, Hayley Blake’s Revelation Un-Locked. 2009. and Homophobia.” 209-20. (About “Blake’s use of the satiri- A philosophical consideration of Blake and John locke. cal figure of the effeminate man in post-1800 references to William Hayley” [209].) §Brown, Mark. “tate Britain Makes room for William Blake 15. Keri Davies. “‘My little cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho’: Art Found in railway timetable: curator [Philippa Simpson] elizabeth Iremonger and the Female World of Book-collect- says of eight tiny, hand-coloured works tackling big themes: ing.” 221-35. ‘It’s probably best not to get into too much detail.’” Guardian review [london] 12 Aug. 2010. Max Fincher, Times Literary Supplement 6 Aug. 2010: 26 The prints are from the Small Book of Designs (B). (Blake as “a queer icon”).

*Bruder, Helen P., and tristanne connolly, eds. Queer *Brus, Günter. Brus’s + Blake’s Jobs: Bild-Dichtung, Werke auf Blake. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN: Papier, Nachwort, Transkription, Impressum, Vorzugsausgaben. 9780230218369. Klagenfurt: ritter Verlag, 2008. 4o (30 cm.), 162 + 22 pp.; There are some queer uses of “queer” here. ISBN: 9783854154327. In German. Helen P. Bruder and tristanne connolly. “Introduction: The work consists of notes, doodles, and echoes of Blake’s ‘What is now proved was once, only imagin’d.’” 1-20. (“Blake’s designs from “” to Dante. It originated queer themes are striking and abundant” [12].) in a symposium on his seventieth birthday, 18 Oct. 2008, and Helen Kidd. “Pansexuality (regained).” 21-22. (A poem.) an exhibition 17 Oct. 2008-25 Jan. 2009 at Neue Galerie Graz, 1. christopher Z. Hobson. “Blake and the evolution of Same- Austria. Sex Subjectivity.” 23-39. (About “ideas of same-sex subjectiv- ity” [23].) 2. richard c. Sha. “Blake and the Queering of Jouissance.” 68. A “tranny” is apparently a transvestite.

26 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 §Burdett, Osbert. William Blake’s Poland Street and the Early context of his apprenticeship before offering a few examples of Prophecies. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 17.8 x how the Gothic aesthetic resonates in his later works” (162). 25.4 cm., 26 pp.; ISBN: 9781161538748. It is part of an issue “In celebration of richard Gough (1735- An extract from Burdett’s William Blake (1926) . 1809)” (118-224).

*Bürger, M. W. [i.e., J. Thoré]. “William Blake.” Histoire des *Damon, S. Foster. William Blake, His Philosophy and Sym- peintres de toutes les écoles: école anglaise. 1863. bols. 1924 …. G. The wood engraving of “Death’s Door” (11.3 x 17.4 cm.), §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 510 pp.; ISBN: signed “l. chapon” (i.e., léon louis chapon [1836-1918]), is 9781161609417. (Hardcover version of the Kessinger paper- not noted in BB.69 The work seems to consist of individually back of 2006 .) paginated chapters first issued separately. §DeAngelis, Michael. “Gender and Other transcendences: *Buryn, ed. The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagina- William Blake as Johnny Depp [in Dead Man].” Ladies and tion. 1995. B. §2010. Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Mary K. Greer’s Tarot Blog , 9 Sept. 2010, announces the “revised edition of the University of New York Press, 2001. cultural Studies in cin- William Blake tarot.” The 2010 edition is said to have better ema/Video. 283-99. colors, etc. ed Buryn, “my ex-husband,” created it, but Mary Greer had a lot to do with the original. §Dent, Shirley. “Iniquitous Symmetries: Aestheticism and Secularism in the reception of William Blake’s Works in *cary, elisabeth luther. The Art of William Blake: His Sketch- Books and Periodicals during the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s.” Book, His Water-Colours, His Painted Books. 1907. B. §[ charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 25 cm., xi, 56 wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2904>. pp., xlix leaves of pls.; ISBN: 9781146920360. *De Selincourt, Basil. William Blake. 1909 …. e. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 400 case for recombinate Influence.” Yeats’s Poetry in the Making: pp.; ISBN: 9781178354799. Sing Whatever Is Well Made. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmil- lan, 2010. 154-85 (chapter 7). §*Dołowska, ewa, ed. Wielcy malarze—ich życie, inspiracje i dzieło. Cz. 155, William Blake. Warsaw: P. O. Polska, 2005. 29 *cheney, Sheldon. “A Mystic in the Age of enlightened Scep- cm., 31 pp.; ISBN: 838978565X. In Polish. ticism: William Blake.” Men Who Have Walked with God. A biography. 1945. B. §William Blake: A Mystic in the Age of Enlightened Skepticism. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, §Drennan, William. “Blake and Gnosis.” University of liver- 2010. 8.5" x 11", 88 pp.; ISBN: 9781161595062. pool PhD, 1999.

*chesterton, G. K. William Blake. 1910 …. J. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 226 pp. icle of Higher Education 24 Oct. 2010. . chevalier, tracy. Burning Bright. 2007. “reveals us to ourselves” as “mentally imprisoned.” (By 2 Nov. The German translation §Die Lieder des Mr. Blake, trans. Ur- 2010 there had been 11 online responses—to the politics, not sula Wulfekamp (Berlin: list, 2008) , has also to Blake.) appeared under the title §Das Mädchen mit den funkelnden Augen (Berlin: list, 2010). eliot, t. S. “The Naked Man.” Athenæum (1920) … “William Blake.” Valitud esseesid. §crnjanski, Milos. “Viljem Blejk [William Blake].” Srpski trans. Jaak rähesoo. [tallinn]: Hortus litterarum, 1997. In književni glasnik 22.2 (16 Sept. 1927): 157-58. In Serbian. estonian.

*crosby, Mark. “William Blake in Westminster Abbey, 1774- elliott, clare. “‘A Backward Glance O’er’ the (Dis)United 1777.” Bodleian Library Record 22.2 (Oct. 2009): 162-80. States: William Blake, ralph Waldo emerson and the ‘Au- “This article situates his [Blake’s] time in the Abbey in the thentic American religion.’” European Journal of American Culture (2009) 69. essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): “emersonian self-reliance, when read through this Blakean 130. lens, needs serious consideration …” (91).

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 27 §elliott, clare. “William Blake and America: Freedom and *Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” Violence in the Atlantic World.” Comparative American Stud- 1863 …. Q. §[1863 ed.]. Vol. 1. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Pub- lishing, 2010. 432 pp.; ISBN: 9781163442982. r. [1880 ed.]. §elliott, clare Frances. “William Blake’s American legacy: cambridge: cambridge University Press, 2010. 992 pp. [both transcendentalism and Visionary Poetics in ralph Waldo vols.]; ISBN: 9781108013697. emerson and Walt Whitman.” University of Glasgow PhD, reviews, announcements, etc. (1863 ed.) 2008. 277 pp. Anon., London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, and Science 7, no. 176 (14 Nov. 1863): 519-20 (“really first-rate”). *erdman, David V. “Blake’s Vision of Slavery.” Journal of the Anon., “Miscellanea,” American Literary Gazette and Publish- Warburg and Courtauld Institute (1952) B. re- ers’ Circular [Philadelphia] 2, no. 3 (1 Dec. 1863): 83 (under printed in Enslavement and Emancipation. ed. Blake Hobby. “Novelties in english literature” is “the late Alexander Gil- New York: Bloom’s literary criticism, 2010. Bloom’s literary christ’s ‘life of William Blake,’ which has been ready for some Themes. 229-44. months, and deferred until the reading season set in, has ap- peared at last”). §erle, Sibylle. Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy. london: leg- Anon., “William Blake the Artist,” Bookseller: A Handbook of enda, 2010. Studies in comparative literature 21. xii, 232 British and Foreign Literature (10 Dec. 1863): 709-10. Anon., “reviews and Notices of Books,” Lancet no. 2103 (19 *erle, Sibylle. “leaving Their Mark: lavater, Fuseli and Blake’s Dec. 1863): 705-07 (“some of the productions of William Imprint on Aphorisms on Man.” Comparative Critical Studies Blake were in their sublimity of conception almost superhu- (2006) man … we are of the bewitched …,” but “he really was insane” Particularly concerned with “the early history of physiog- [706]). nomy in england, lavater’s reception and his english connec- Anon., Westminster Review 81, no. 159 (Jan. 1864): 46-54 tions” (348). (quotes “My Silks,” “The Voice of the Devil,” and “”). *essick, robert N., and Donald Pearce, eds. Blake in His Anon., “Pictor Ignotus,” Illustrated Magazine ns 24 (1867): 19- Time. 1978. 28 (mostly paraphrase). For a revised version of Hazard Adams, “revisiting reynold[s]’s Discourses and Blake’s Annotations,” see Adams, Gillham, D. G. Blake’s Contrary States: The “Songs ofInnocence Blake’s Margins, above. and of Experience” as Dramatic Poems. 1966. B. §cambridge: cambridge University Press, 2010. Manufac- §*Farrell, Michael. “Blake and the Methodists.” University of tured on demand. 268 pp.; ISBN: 9780521129862. Oxford DPhil, 2010. vii, 356 pp. Gilroy, John. “revolution, reaction and the Natural World: §*Fostowicz, Michał. Boska analogia: William Blake a sztuka Wordsworth and coleridge, John clare and William Blake” starożytności. Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Słowo/obraz terytoria, and “extended commentary: Blake, ‘The tyger’ fromSongs of 2008. 23 cm., 563 pp.; ISBN: 9788374538121. In Polish. Experience (1793).” Romantic Literature. Harlow: longman, 2010. York Notes companions. ISBN: 9781408204795. §*Furman-Adams, Wendy. “Visual Arts.” Milton in Context. ed. Stephen B. Dobranski. cambridge: cambridge University §Goldman, William David. “‘Prophetic History’: Blake, Press, 2010. 180-209 (chapter 16; 189, 193-95 on Blake). Browning and the Visionary tradition.” University of lon- don PhD, 2005. Gannon, Thomas c. Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Goldsmith, Steven. “William Blake and the Future of en- Literature. lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 67-71. thusiasm.” Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009) Garnett, richard. William Blake, Painter and Poet. 1895, “Sartre’s The Emotions provides a useful framework for un- 1971, 1972. D. §[Whitefish]: Kes- derstanding” Blake’s modern critics (460 [abstract]). singer Publishing, 2010. legacy reprint Series. 98 pp. §Gordon, robert c. “Apocalypse Improvised: The Prophecies §*Garrett, Yanis. Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience: of William Blake.” Arms and the Imagination: Essays on War, William Blake. Study Notes for Standard english: Module c Politics, and Anglophone Culture. lanham: Hamilton Books, 2009-2012 HSc. Seven Hills [Australia]: Five Senses educa- 2009. chapter 12. tion, 2009. top Notes. 21 cm., 169 pp.; ISBN: 9781741300789.

28 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 §Grabnar, Andrej. William Blake: literarni portret. Šmarješke §Hobby, Blake. “Urizen and the Fragmentary experience of toplice: Stella, 2010. Klasiki in duhovnost. 22 cm., 124 pp.; the Sublime in TheFour Zoas.” The Sublime. ed. Blake Hobby. ISBN: 9789612462017. In Slovenian. New York: Bloom’s literary criticism, 2010. Bloom’s literary Themes. §Grčić, Marko. “Uz vizije Williama Blakea [With Visions of William Blake].” Provincia deserta. Zagreb: Kolo Matice §Hoffmann, Deborah lee. “The Spirit of Sound: Prosodic hrvatske, 1970. 73-81. In croatian. Method in the Poetry of William Blake, W. B. Yeats, and t. S. See also his Vizije (Part I, Section B). eliot.” McGill University PhD, 2010.

§Grčić, Marko. “William Blake.” Forum 14.9-10 (Sept.-Oct. §Hoyle, Ben. “rare etchings by William Blake Discovered in 1967): 7-52. railway timetable.” Times [london] 11 Jan. 2010. About prints from the Small Book of Designs (B). Green, Matthew J. A. Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and §*Hutchings, Kevin. “Gender, environment, and Imperial- Empiricism. 2005. ism in William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” review Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlan- Nancy M. Goslee (see Blake 43.3, above). tic World, 1770-1850. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. §*Haggarty, Sarah. Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange. cambridge: cambridge University Press, 2010. §Ibata, Hélène. “William Blake’s Visual Sublime: The ‘eternal cambridge Studies in romanticism no. 84. 256 pp.; ISBN: labours.’” European Romantic Review 21 (2010): 29-48. 9780521117289. Parts of chapter 3, “charity” (84-110), are revised from §*Interfaces “From Donation to Demand?” Blake and Conflict, ed. Hag- Number 30 (spring 2010): Blake Intempestif/Unruly Blake garty and Jon Mee (2009) . ed. Jean-Marie Fournier and Maurice Géracht Jean-Marie Fournier. “Presentation.” *Haggarty, Sarah, and Jon Mee, eds. Blake and Conflict. 2009. Martin Myrone. “Blake’s Unruly Art History: Thecase of the 1809 exhibition.” 7-20. For a revised version of chapter 6, “From Donation to De- Michael Phillips. “‘printing in the infernal method.’” 21-34. mand? Almsgiving and the ‘Annotations to Thornton,’” see Andrew lincoln. “Blake’s Innocence reconsidered.” 35-46. Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts, above. Pierre-Yves courdert [i.e., coudert]. “enclosure and expan- sion: Blake, Science, and the Body.” 47-56. Hamblen, emily S. On the Minor Prophecies of William Blake. laurent châtel. “W. B. & W. B.: ‘A long Story’—Sublime con- 1930. gruences between Gray, Beckford and Blake.” 57-74. It was published in separate chapters as christian la cassagnère. “The Sublimity of the tyger.” 75-84. §William Blake and His Return to Illumination. [Whitefish]: B. eugene Mccarthy. “reading Blake: A case for Memoriza- Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 18 pp.; ISBN: 9781161503111. tion.” 85-90. §William Blake and . [Whitefish]: Kes- Steve Shepherd. “Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Blake singer Publishing, 2010. 44 pp.; ISBN: 9781161571745. into rock.” 91-104. §William Blake and the Psychology of His Symbols. [Whitefish]: Michael Phillips. “A Note on the Facsimile of William Blake’s Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 24 pp.; ISBN: 9781161520477. Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” 105-10. §William Blake and The Song of los. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Martin Postle. “‘Sir Joshua and his Gang’: Blake, reynolds Publishing, 2010. 28 pp.; ISBN: 9781161536058. and the royal Academy.” 111ff. Only 150 copies of the issue were printed, each with an im- §Hartman, Geoffrey. “Notes toward a Supreme Addiction: pression from Michael Phillips’s facsimiles [2009] of Blake’s The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick.” copperplates of Songs pls. 1, 3-4, 8, 12, 18-19, 24, 27, 29-30, Religion, Literature and the Imagination: Sacred Worlds. ed. 33, 37-38, 42, 46. Mark Knight and louise lee. london: continuum, 2009. continuum literary Studies. chapter 2. §James, Nicholas Philip. “William Blake.” Eduardo Paolozzi: Newton Figures. london: cv Publications, 2005. cv/Visual *Higgins, charlotte. “tate Buys … Blakes.” Guardian [lon- Arts research. don] 12 Jan. 2010. . A recorded conversation (1990) with Paolozzi (1924-2005). They were bought for £441,000 with the aid of the Art Fund. §Jaynes, Julian. “: Visions of William Blake.” “Voices of the Mind,” part 2 of Reflections on the Dawn of Con-

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 29 sciousness: Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited. ed. [Zēsimos] Lorentzato. Athens: Gephyres, 2003. 21 cm., 81 Marcel Kuijsten. Henderson: Julian Jaynes Society, 2006. pp.; ISBN: 9605272539. In Greek.

§Johanson, Paula. “William Blake (1757-1827).” Early British Keeble, Brian. “William Blake: Art as Divine Vision.” Teme- Poetry: “Words that Burn.” Berkeley Heights: enslow Publish- nos Academy Review (2006) B. God and Work: ers, 2009. Poetry rocks! Aspects of Art and Tradition. Foreword by Wendell Berry. Short biographies for a juvenile audience. 2009. 85-98 (chapter 7). “The urgency of his polemic all but defies us to feel the im- *Jones, John H. Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihila- press of his exaltation” (2009, p. 86). tion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 8o, xiii, 235 pp.; ISBN: 9780230622357. *Kennedy, Maev. “tate to Show Hidden Blakes. consumed “Whereas Milton concerns itself with the annihilation of by flames, contorted in ecstasy … William Blake’s lost depic- authorial Selfhood,Jerusalem … [focuses] on the self-annihi- tions of the torments of hell have been acquired by the tate.” lation of the reader” (175). Guardian [london] 11 Jan. 2010. . Heaven and Hell: Dialogue and ‘Imposition’” (chapter 2, The prints [from the Small Book of Designs (B)] were found 59-95), “The [First] Book of Urizen: The Problem of Autho- in “an edwardian international train timetable”; “a book lover rial Selfhood” (chapter 3, 97-133), “Milton: The Annihilation bought them at a sale in north london in 1978.” of Authorial Selfhood” (chapter 4, 135-73), and “Jerusalem: The reader and Self-Annihilation” (chapter 5, 175-211) are Kobayashi, Keiko. “Blake and Kenzaburo Oe.” Ritsumeikan revised from his “‘Self-Annihilation’ and Dialogue in Blake’s Bungaku [Journal of Cultural Science] no. 615 (2010): 562-56 creative Process: Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem” (1994) (see be- [sic]. low). chapter 3 is revised from his “Printed Performance and “This is a revised version of the oral report … to the Interna- reading The Book[s] of Urizen” (1999) . tional conference ‘Blake in the Orient’ [2003 ] … .” *Jones, John H. “Printed Performance and reading The Book[s] of Urizen: Blake’s Bookmaking Process and the trans- §Koljević, Nikola. “Aktuelna rec u Blejkovom delu [The Word formation of late eighteenth-century Print culture.” Colby Actual (contemporary) in Blake’s Work].” Književne novine Quarterly (1999) 57 (Dec. 1957): 5. In Serbian. For “a revised version,” see his Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation, above. §Kovel, Joel. “Dark Satanic Mills: William Blake and the cri- tique of War.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 21.2 (June 2010): Jones, John H. “‘Self-Annihilation’ and Dialogue in Blake’s 4-19. creative Process: Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem.” Modern Lan - guage Studies 24.2 (spring 1994): 3-10. §Kuić, ranka. “Blejk, pesnik covekove duse [Blake, a Poet of “Through self-annihilation, Blake attempts to undo the op- Man’s Soul].” Antologija engleske romantičarske poezije. Bel- pression of monologism” (9). grade: Naučna knjiga, 1974. 7-13. In Serbian. revised portions appear in several chapters of his Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation, above. §*lamennais, Félicité robert de. En troendes tale. trans. truls Winther. [Illustrations by William Blake]. Oslo: ta- §Kallerud, Mauritz royce. “The Genre of conjectural His- num-Norli, 1978. 113 pp.; ISBN: 8251807182. In Norwegian. tory: Jean-Jacques rousseau, Mary Shelley, and William Blake in the New World.” State University of New York (Buffalo) langridge, Irene. William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art PhD, 1998. 242 pp. Work. 1904. B. §[charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 318 pp.; ISBN: 9781178018172. §Kamčevski, Danko. “Paradoks u poeziji Viljema Blejka [Paradox in the Poetry of William Blake].” Koraci [Journal §[lewis, David, ed.]. Blake Book. leipzig: lubok, 2010. 11 x of literature, Art, and culture] 44.5-6 (June 2010): 157-64. 16 cm., 112 pp.; ISBN: 9783941601352. In english. In Serbian. Artistic exercises in response to Blake by 14 artists. On the relationship between the language of paradox and the language of poetry, especially in “The tyger” and The §linkin, Harriet Kramer. “lucy Hooper, William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. and ‘The Fairy’s Funeral.’” Romanticism and Victorian- ism on the Net no. 54 (May 2009). . mia anagnōsē tou [ezra] Pound kai tou Blake me hodēgo ton On the context of lucy Hooper’s poem.

30 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 *linnell, David. Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co.: The Life of §Milanović, ljubomir. “Hermeneutika u delu Viljema Blejka John Linnell. 1994. B. §Brighton: Book Guild, [Hermeneutics in the Work of William Blake].” 3+4 4 (1998- 2010. ISBN: 9780863329173. 99): 44-47. . In Serbian. §lučić, Milka. “Blejk i pohvala imaginaciji [Blake and a trib- ute to Imagination].” Politika 13 Mar. 1999. In Serbian. §Morgan, Paige. “The Minute Particular in the Immensity of the Internet: What coleridge, Hartley and Blake can teach Us §MacPhee, chantelle l. ‘“All the world’s a stage’: William about Digital editing.” Romanticism 15.3 (Oct. 2009): 265-75. Blake and William Shakespeare.” University of Glasgow PhD, 2002. Morimatsu, Kensuke. “Ima hitotsu no romanha shizen big- aku—Blake wo ta no shijin gun to hikaku koryo [Another *Makdisi, Saree. William Blake and the Impossible History of Aesthetics of romantic Nature—comparing Blake with Oth- the 1790s. 2003. er Poets].” Taikai Proceedings [Proceedings of the 81st General review Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan] no. 81 (2009): Jackie DiSalvo, Science and Society 73.1 (2009): 144-46 (“his study sounds a cautionary note for radicalism based on a politics of individual rights”). *Mulhallen, Karen, ed. Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley Jr. toronto: University of toronto Press, 2010. *Malmberg, carl-Johan. “William Blakes guld. reflektioner 4o, xvi, 300 pp., 51 reproductions; ISBN: 9781442641518. kring ett måleriskt element [William Blake’s Gold. reflec- Karen Mulhallen. “Introduction.” 3-15. (“G. e. Bentley Jr tions on a Painterly element].” Biblis [a publication of Kung- almost single-handedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism liga biblioteket (National library of Sweden)] no. 49 (spring from formalism and symbolism to the ‘Minute Particulars’ of 2010): 2-14. In Swedish. Blake’s life and work” [3].) Malmberg, one of Sweden’s foremost art critics, argues that Part One: “every Minute Particular Is Holy”: Materials gold in the illuminated books is, in M. H. Abrams’s sense, 1. robert N. essick. “collecting Blake.” 19-34. (A masterful both mirror and lamp. contrasting the use of gold in a me- survey of the “symbiotic relationship” between Blake collect- dieval illumination on the one hand and in an early painting ing and Blake scholarship.) by Ingres on the other, Malmberg shows that gold often does 2. *Joseph Viscomi. “two Fake Blakes revisited; One Dew- not have symbolic meaning in Blake’s works (he adduces the Smith revealed.” 35-78. (A brilliant demonstration that gold in the Jerusalem pl. 59 design, where the daughters la- America [B] pls. 4, 9 are photolithographic facsimiles [not bor at wheels, “terrible their distress”), but is there for its fakes] made between 1874 and 1878 by A. G. Dew-Smith own sake, its own existence, and that, while it may have sym- [1848-1903], an admirable photographer and commercial li- bolic meaning at times, there are important places where thographer, and each marked by him “F” [?for “Facsimile”] to gold=gold. perfect his copy.) 3. *Joyce H. townsend and Bronwyn A. Ormsby. “Blake’s *Matsushima, Shoichi. Blake ron-shu: Pickering kohon Mil- Painting Materials, technical Art History, and the legacy of ton sonota [Essays on Blake: The Pickering Manuscript,Milton, G. e. Bentley Jr.” 79-92. (“This paper discusses the motives and Others]. tokyo: eikosha, 2010. 19 cm., 280 pp.; ISBN: that inspired our research into … Blake’s output, the way it 9784870971288. In Japanese. developed, and its findings in the context of other technical studies on Blake” [80].) §Mauger, Matthew Peter. “Prophetic legislation: William Part two: “For Friendship’s Sake”: Friends and Patrons Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the law.” University of 4. David Bindman. “New light on the Mathews: Flaxman london PhD, 2005. and Blake’s early Gothicism.” 95-104. (Inscriptions by A. S. Mathew on early Flaxman drawings of Gothic subjects, es- §Menneteau, Patrick. “William Blake and the Dark Side of pecially for chatterton, “strongly suggest that Mathew was the enlightenment: toward a reassessment of the Jungian directly involved in Flaxman’s early attempts at illustrating contribution.” The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After- chatterton” [96].) Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. ed. Serge Sou- 5. *Mark crosby. “‘a ladys Book’: Blake’s engravings for Hay- pel, Kevin l. cope, and Alexander Pettit. New York: AMS, ley’s The Triumphs of Temper.” 105-30. (“Blake’s six plates 2010. AMS Studies in the eighteenth century, no. 59. were not reprinted in the second thirteenth edition” [i.e., the second state of the thirteenth edition], partly because the cop- *Mertz, Jeffrey Barclay. “A Visionary among the radicals: perplates had become very worn [106].) William Blake and the circle of Joseph Johnson, 1790-95.” 6. Mary lynn Johnson. “More on Blake’s (and Bentley’s) University of Oxford DPhil, 2010. 322 pp., 10 illustrations. ‘White collar Maecenas’: Thomas Butts, His Wife’s Family of Well informed, cautious, and judicious. Artisans, and the Methodist Withams of St. Bartholomew the

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 31 Great.” 131-64. (A densely factual and original essay only oc- Gwee li Sui. “Who Won the Battle of Ideas between Newton casionally related to Blake. The parents of Thomas Butts were and Blake?” married by John Wesley.) 7. Angus Whitehead. “‘Went to see Blake—also to Surgeons §Norvig, Gerda S. “On creativity and Psychological Bound- college’: Blake and George cumberland’s Pocketbooks.” 165- aries in the life and Work of William Blake.” Fielding Gradu- 200. (On 3 June 1820 George cumberland “Went to see Blake” ate University [Santa Barbara] PhD, 2008. and perhaps took him “to introduce [him?] to Mr [William] clift,” the distinguished curator of the Hunterian Museum in *Otto, Peter. “Politics, Aesthetics, and Blake’s ‘bounding line.’” the royal college of Surgeons, and to discuss with clift the Word and Image 26.2 (Apr.-June 2010): 172-85. purchase of a fossil.) On Blake’s “prophetic politics” as seen in America, TheBook 8. *Martin Butlin. “George richmond, Blake’s true Heir?” of Los, and Jerusalem (174-75). 201-12. (richmond is Blake’s artistic heir, especially in his Creation of Light [1826].) §Pavlović, Miodrag. “Proročke knjige Vilijama Blejka [The Part Three: “What I Both See and Hear”: Prophetic Books of William Blake].” Čitanje zamišljenog Architecture and Industry [Reading of the Imagined]. Novi Sad: Bratstvo-Jedinstvo, 9. *Morton D. Paley. “William Blake and chichester.” 215-32. 1990. 135-40. In Serbian. (“The foundations of his [Blake’s] four-gated city [of Golgo- nooza] lay in chichester” [219].) §Pavlović, Miodrag. “Visionar Vilijam Blejk [Visionary Wil- 10. Keri Davies. “William Blake and the Straw Paper Man- liam Blake].” Politika (“Kultura-umetnost”) 13 Oct. 1957: 3. ufactory at Millbank.” 233-61. (The first european straw In Serbian. paper mill was built at Millbank in 1801 by Matthias Koops [who had been declared bankrupt in 1790] and was declared Pearsall, Derek. William Langland, William Blake, and the Po- bankrupt in 1803, which ruined richard twiss [d. 1821], who etry of Hope. 2003. B. reprinted in §The Mor- owned Blake’s For Children.) ton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005. ed. Daniel Donoghue, Jerome McGann. “epilogue: A Memorable Fancy.” 262-64. James Simpson, and Nicholas Watson. Kalamazoo: Medieval (The Prolific Giant inMarriage pls. 16-17 is GeB, or rather “all Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010. those books and essays turned out from his Printing House in Hell: clearing away rubbish, building and decorating im- *Phillips, Michael. “The Printing of Blake’s America a Proph- mense bibliographical palaces …” [263].) ecy.” Print Quarterly (2004) *robert Brandeis. “Appendix: William Blake in toronto: The Most of Phillips’s “A Note on Production” in *Songs of In- Bentley collection at Victoria University library.” 265-72. nocence and of Experience: A Portfolio of eighteen Facsimile (The essay “outline[s] the extent of the [Bentleys’ bibliophilic] Impressions (2009) (see Part I, Section B) is “abstracted” from infection and its ultimate successful ‘comforting cure’” in giv- his 2004 essay. ing the collection to the Victoria University library [265].) For the associated exhibition and symposium, see Remem- §Popović, Vladeta. “Vilijam Blejk [William Blake].” Kroz ber Me! under 2010 in Part IV. englesku književnost [Through English Literature]. Belgrade: Izdavacka knjizarnica rajkovica i cukovica, 1929. 51-59. In *Nicoll, Allardyce. William Blake and His Poetry. 1922, Serbian. 1969, 1977. D. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 160 pp.; ISBN: 9781152118560. §Popović, Vladeta. “Vilijam Blejk [William Blake].” Strani pregled 2 (Dec. 1927): 219-25. In Serbian. Niimi, Hatsuko. “Milton no joka ni tsuite—Blake juyo no ichi danmen [Preface to Milton: A case Study in the Histori- §Powys, John cowper. “William Blake.” Essays on De Mau- cal reception of William Blake].” Nihon Joshi Daigaku Eibei passant, Anatole France, William Blake. 1916. Bungaku Kenkyu [Japan Women’s University, Studies in English B. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 70 pp.; ISBN: and American Literature] no. 45 (2010): 1-17. In Japanese. 9781161607444.

§Niyogi, ralla Guha, ed. Romanticism and Its Legacies. Kol- §Pullman, Philip. “Freedom: The award-winning novelist kata: Fine Prints in collaboration with Basanti Devi college, shares much of his philosophy of liberty with visionary artist 2009. ISBN: 9788190688949. William Blake.” Resurgence no. 258 (2010): 25-27. It includes: Subir Dhar. “Blake’s london and the Metaphysics of closure.” Quinney, laura. William Blake on Self and Soul. 2009. As Well.” “Blake’s psychology of subjectivity is astute, innovative, and Abhishek Sarkar. “Blake’s Thel: The Feminine Mystique.” complex” (xi). “A portion” of chapter 2, “Wordsworth, Plato,

32 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 and Blake,” had appeared as “Wordsworth’s Ghosts and the §rix, robert W. “William Blake og lidenskabens uønskede Model of the Mind,” European Romantic Review 9.2 (spring engle.” Engleskrift. ed. Annegret Friedrichsen and charlotte 1998): 293-301, and another portion, revised here, had been cappi Grunnet. copenhagen, 2006. 44-60. In Danish. printed as “Swerving Neo-Platonists,” Wordsworth Circle 37.1 (winter 2006): 31-38. §roberts, Jonathan. Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. london: review continuum, 2010. New Directions in religion and literature. Shirley Dent, Times Literary Supplement 2 July 2010: 26-27 xiii, 127 pp.; ISBN: 9780826422330. (with another) (“the acuity of these readings is undermined by the jarring addition of twentieth-century theorists”). roberts, Jonathan. William Blake’s Poetry: A Reader’s Guide. 2007. *ripley, Wayne c., and Justin Van Kleeck, eds. Editing and review Reading Blake. [college Park]: University of Maryland, Sept. §christopher Burdon, Literature and Theology 23.4 (2009): 2010. A romantic circles Praxis Volume. . Wayne c. ripley. “Introduction: editing Blake.” 35 para- robinson, Henry crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Corre- graphs. (“The first task of every editor has been to remediate” spondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F.S.A. Blake’s work. Many of the contributors to the volume “have … 1869. B. 1869. c. 1869. D. §Boston: James worked as project assistants to the Blake Archive and received r. Osgood and company, 1871.70 e. 1872. their graduate training from its editors.”) David Fuller. “Modernizing Blake’s text: Syntax, rhythm, §rovira, James. Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety. rhetoric.” 25 paragraphs. (A sound and responsible essay.) london: continuum, 2010. continuum literary Studies. 25 *Mary lynn Johnson. “contingencies, exigencies, and edi- cm., viii, 184 pp.; ISBN: 9781441135599. torial Praxis: The case of the 2008 Norton Blake.” 23 para- graphs. (An “anecdotal case history” of the fundamentally §rowland, christopher. “‘Would to God that all the lord’s redesigned Norton edition of Blake, which “is the product of people were prophets’: Prophetic Voices.” Glass 19 (spring trade-offs” [¶3, 1].) 2007): 30-40. . Justin Van Kleeck. “editioning William Blake’s VALA/The On the nature of christian prophecy, beginning with Wil- Four Zoas.” 83 paragraphs. (A responsible, reliable, and judi- liam Blake, Joanna Southcott, and richard Brothers. cious summary of the problems in editing Vala.) W. H. Stevenson. “The ends of editing.” 48 paragraphs. (“In §rupert, Jane. “reasoning and Knowing in Science and Po- all this, the editor must keep head above water” [¶48].) etry: erasmus Darwin, charles Darwin, and William Blake.” *rachel lee and J. Alexandra McGhee. “‘The productions Uneasy Relations: Reason in Literature and Science from Aris- of time’: Visions of Blake in the Digital Age.” 46 paragraphs. totle to Darwin and Blake. Milwaukee: Marquette University (The essay, about Blake’s “hybridity,” “documents our experi- Press, 2010. Marquette Studies in Philosophy, no. 69. ences editing Blake’s … Island in the Moon … in the William Blake Archive” [¶11, 7].) §Sabin, Stefana. Die Wahrheit der Literatur: Von William *Wayne c. ripley. “Delineation editing of co-texts: Wil- Blake bis Samuel Beckett. Marburg: Verlag literaturWissen- liam Blake’s Illustrations.” 35 paragraphs. (“Social-text edit- schaft.de, 2010. ISBN: 9783936134223. In German. ing provides the most appropriate editorial model for Blake’s illustrations of other authors.” With examples from Young’s §Sahm, Danielle. “contrary to expectations: exploring Night Thoughts [1797] and Blair’s Grave [1808], he wants to Blake’s contraries in David Almond’s Skellig.” Children’s Lit- show “the social realities of these works” [¶5, 35].) erature 38 (2010): 115-32.

§rix, robert. “Magnetic cure in William Blake’s The French §Saklofske, Jon. “Between History and Hope: The Urban cen- Revolution.” Explicator 68.3 (2010): 167-71. tre of William Blake and William Wordsworth.” City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City. ed. Glenn clark, rix, robert. William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Chris- Judith Owens, and Greg t. Smith. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s tianity. 2007. University Press, 2010. reviews Ariel Hessayon, English Historical Review 124, no. 506 (2009): Saklofske, Jon. “conscripting Imagination: The National 195-96 (“a careful and balanced reconstruc- ‘Duty’ of William Blake’s Art.” Romanticism on the Net (2007) tion of an important aspect of Blake’s world”). Jeremy tambling, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 32.1 (2009): 123-24 (a “useful book”). 70. First reported in essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake §John ruff, Christianity and Literature 59.2 (2010): 347-51. 44.4 (spring 2011): 130.

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 33 concerns “William Blake’s creative and commercial posi- [Study of Nineteenth-Century Scholarship (issued by the Insti- tioning relative to late-eighteenth-century galleries, exhibi- tute for the Study of Nineteenth-century Scholarship, Niigata tion culture and artistic spectacle.” University)] no. 2 (2009): 19-38. In Japanese.

§Saklofske, Jon A. H. “‘enough! or too Much’: The Functions §Swann, Karen. “Blake’s Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion.” of Media Interaction in William Blake’s composite Designs.” A Companion to Romantic Poetry. ed. charles Mahoney. McGill University PhD, 2003. chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Blackwell companions to literature and culture. 538-53 (chapter 31). Sato, Hikari. “erasmus Darwin to William Blake saiko [eras- mus Darwin and William Blake reconsidered].” Choiki Bun- Symons, Arthur. William Blake. 1907 …. F. ka Kagaku Kiyo [Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (issued by §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2007. 23 cm., xviii, 433 the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of to- pp.; ISBN: 9780548280980. kyo)] 14 (2009): 5-18. In Japanese. Tate Papers [tate’s Online research Journal] §Sekulić, Isidora. “Vilijem Blejk: Vencanje Neba i Pakla Number 14 (autumn 2010) [William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell].” Srpski It includes: §Shete, Michelle. “The Perceptive Poets: A comparative Study Blake’s 1809 exhibition of Jal lu’-Din rín rúmi, Sant Kabír, Matsuo Bashó and Wil- *David Blayney Brown and Martin Myrone. “William Blake’s liam Blake.” University of Wollongong [Australia] PhD, 2008. 1809 exhibition.” 12 paragraphs. (Mostly a herald for the The poets represent Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and prophets who follow.) christianity. *Susan Matthews. “An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 exhibition and the Attack on evangelical culture.” 28 §Slavinski, Živorad Mihajlović. “Otkrovenje po Vilijamu Ble- paragraphs. (Blake in the context of James Barry, An Account jku [The Apocalypse According to William Blake].” Njihov of a Series of Pictures in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, onostrani život. Belgrade: [self-published], 1981. 99-106. In Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi [1783] and Bar- Serbian. ry’s support for Mary Wollstonecraft; she deals especially with Blake’s The Penance of Jane Shore.) Smith, John Thomas. “William Blake.” Nollekens and His *Philippa Simpson. “lost in the crowd: Blake and london Times. 1828, 1829. c. 1917. in 1809.” 30 paragraphs. (Some of Blake’s ideas about the D. 1920. e. §N.p.: reitell Press, 2010. 496 pp.; “rubbish of the continent brought here by Ignorant Picture ISBN: 9781445574295. dealers” [“Public Address,” Notebook p. 24] were shared by other artists.) §Stevanović, Svetislav. “O mistici i misticarima engleske *Konstantinos Stefanis. “reasoned exhibitions: Blake in Poezije [On Mysticism and Mystics of english Poetry].” Leto- 1809 and reynolds in 1813.” 26 paragraphs. (About retro- pis Matice srpske 3 (June 1929): 376-98. In Serbian. spective catalogues such as Blake’s Descriptive Catalogue and the British Institution’s Catalogue of Pictures by the Late Sir §Stevens, clint. “Blake’s Buildings: Poetry and the reshaping Joshua Reynolds Exhibited by the Permission of the Proprietors of epistemology.” University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign in Honour of the Memory of That Distinguished Artist, and for PhD, 2009. 261 pp. See DAI–A 70 (2009). the Improvement of British Art [london, 1813]. “Descriptive catalogue” was the current term for what the French called Story, Alfred t. William Blake: His Life Character and Ge- catalogue raisonné or reasoned catalogue.) nius. 1893, 1970. c. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger All the papers were given at the symposium Appealing to Publishing, 2010. legacy reprint Series. 168 pp.; ISBN: the Public: William Blake in 1809, tate Britain, Sept. 2009. 9781164059639. §Thanhouser, ed. Urizen Wept: William Blake and the Sub- §Suica, Nikola. “‘Knjiga o Jovu’ Viljema Blejka [‘The Book lime in Milton a Poem. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, of Job’ by William Blake].” Gradac 18.95-97 (1990): 170. In 2008. ISBN: 9783639049824. Serbian. *Thompson, Jennifer. “top 20 Political Songs: Jerusalem | *Suzuki, Masashi. “‘In Felpham I heard and saw the Visions William Blake | 1916: Poem transformed into unofficial na- of Albion’—Blake ni okeru vision to ‘shomotsu senso’ [‘In Fel- tional anthem.” New Statesman 25 Mar. 2010. .

34 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2011 [todd, ruthven]. “Illuminated Poems.” The Tiger’s Eye on §*Viscomi, Joseph. “Blake’s Illuminated Word.” Art, Word Arts and Letters [Westport, connecticut] no. 1 (Oct. 1947): and Image: Two Thousand Years of Visual/Textual Interaction. 72-76. ed. John Dixon Hunt, David lomas, and Michael corris. “Illuminated Poems” consists of reproductions on glossy london: reaktion Books ltd., 2010. 87-109. paper of (1) Blake’s America copperplate fragment71 with one sentence of text saying that “now, in 1947, an experimenting W., r. G. [richard Grant White]. “William Blake.” Galaxy 5, poet [todd] and two artists [S. W. Hayter72 and Joan Miró] no. 5 (May 1868): 652-56. have rediscovered Blake’s antique printing method and are A biographical account, partly a review of Swinburne; making Illuminated Poems” (72); (2) “The engraver for Bill “Blake was crazy.” Hayter,” with decorations which look like Aboriginal designs (73); (3) “The Glass tower,” undecorated (74); (4) “An Alien Welch, Dennis M. “essence, Gender, race: William Blake’s World for Dolores Miró,” with curious unsigned pasted-on Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” Studies in Romanticism colored designs [by her father, Joan Miró] (75). 49.1 (spring 2010): 105-31. According to “The tale of the contents” (56), from which the title derives, todd “is preparing a new book William §Wells, Michael. William Blake ;): Freewilly. Hebburn: Arti- Blake, The Mental Prince.73 He has written a full account of sanine, 2009. 30 cm., 70 leaves, “plastic laminated covers and Blake’s method that will be printed in a technical magazine.”74 spiral binding”; ISBN: 9780956284853. trilling, Daniel. “Perspectives: Jah Wobble, Musician, on White, Helen c. The Mysticism of William Blake. 1927, 1964. William Blake.” New Statesman (2009) c. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2008. Wobble> 6.2" x 9", 276 pp.; ISBN: 9781436680523. An interview: “If Blake had been my age in the 1970s, he would have been on the punk scene, without a doubt.” §Williams, John. “The Place of William Blake in the rela- tionship of romanticism to the Growth of eighteenth cen- tsuchiya, Shigeko. “Seisei suru vision—Blake no Milton [Vi- tury radical Thought in england.” University of York DPhil, sion and revision: Blake’s Milton].” Jimbunken Kiyo [Journal 1975. of the Institute of Cultural Science, Chuo University] no. 67 (2010): 191-213. In Japanese. Williams, Nicholas M. “Blake Dead or Alive.” Nineteenth- Century Literature (2009) §Vehlmann, Fabien. Green Manor no. 3: Fantaisies meur- About “how Blake points to the problem of perceiving mo- trières. Illus. Denis Bodart. Marcinelle [Belgium]: Dupuis, tion” (498 [abstract]). 2005. In French. B. §“In the Head of William Blake.” Green Manor: The Inconvenience of Being Dead/Murderous Fancies. Williams, Nicholas M. “‘The Sciences of life’: living Form [trans. luke Spear.] canterbury: cinebook, 2008. in William Blake and Aldous Huxley.” Romanticism (2009) A comic book or “graphic novel.” “Huxley steers a surprising course back to Blake as a catalys- §Vidaković, Aleksandar. “Blejkova stogodisnjica [Blake’s ing figure” (43). centenary].” Srpski književni glasnik 22.2 (16 Sept. 1927): 457-60. In Serbian. §Woolford, John. “christina rossetti and the ‘rossetti Manu- script’ of William Blake.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ns Vine, Steve. William Blake. 2007. B. §N.p.: 18 (fall 2009): 72-84. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2010. 144 pp.; ISBN: 9788126913206. *Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Blake. 1929, 1969, 1972. D. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2003. 8.2" x 11", 468 pp.; ISBN: 9780766128521. e. §[White- fish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 8.5" x 11", 468 pp.; ISBN: 9781161362381. 71. The contents page says that the America copperplate “etched in 1893 [i.e., 1793]” is in “the rosenwald collection in the library of con- gress.” Note America, foreword by ruthven todd (1947) . §*Yoder, r. Paul. The Narrative Structure of William Blake’s 72. S. W. Hayter, New Ways of Gravure (1949) is partly Poem Jerusalem: A Revisionist Interpretation. lewiston: edwin about todd and Miró. Mellen Press, 2010. 24 cm., v, 179 pp.; ISBN: 9780773436404. 73. The galley proofs of todd’s never-published “William Blake: A Foreword by Nelson Hilton. Mental Prince” (london: Phoenix House, 1947) are with his papers in the Brotherton library of leeds University . 74. “The techniques of William Blake’s Illuminated Painting,” Print §Zakai, Avihu. “religion and the Newtonian Universe.” Jona- (1948) and Print Collector’s Quarterly (1948) . than Edwards’s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of

Summer 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 35 the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning. london: t. & t. and prosaic phraseology, the author may rise to eminence in clark, 2010. chapter 5. descriptive poetry. These poems are elegantly printed, and Includes a section on “Blake’s ‘contempt & Abhorrence’ of are accompanied with etchings by the author, from his own Bacon, locke, and Newton.” original drawings. (271-72)

Division II: Blake’s Circle Palmer, Samuel (1805–81) §Shaw-Miller, Simon, and Sam Smiles, eds. Samuel Palm- Barry, James (1741–1806) er Revisited. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. xv, 167 pp.; ISBN: *Dunne, tom, and William l. Pressly, eds. James Barry, 1741- 9780754667476. 1806: History Painter. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. xix, 268 pp.; Sam Smiles and Simon Shaw-Miller. “Preface.” ISBN: 9780754666349. William Vaughan. “Introduction.” William l. Pressly. “Foreword: Barry Studies from a Bicen- William Vaughan. “Samuel Palmer’s Houndsditch Days.” tennial Perspective.” Greg Smith. “ and Moderns: Samuel Palmer and the tom Dunne. “Introduction: James Barry’s ‘Moral Art’ and the ‘progress of water colours,’ 1822-1833.” Fate of History Painting in Britain.” Martin Postle. “‘This very unstudent-like student’: Palmer David H. Solkin. “From Oddity to Odd Man Out: contesting and the education of the Artist.” James Barry’s critical legacy, 1806-66.” christiana Payne. “‘Dreaming of the marriage of the land and Martin Myrone. “James Barry’s ‘Hairbreadth Niceties’: risk, sea’: Samuel Palmer and the co a s t .” reward and the reform of culture around 1770.” Paul Goldman. “Samuel Palmer: Poetry, Printmaking and Il- Fionnuala McManamon. “James Barry: A History Painter in lustration.” Paris in the 1760s.” Sam Smiles. “From the Valley of Vision to the M25: Samuel Margaret W. lind. “‘Glowing Thoughts on Glowing canvas’: Palmer and Modern cu ltu re .” James Barry’s Venus Rising from the Sea.” Simon Shaw-Miller. “Palmer and the Dark Pastoral in english Martin Postle. “Barry, reynolds and the British School.” Music of the twentieth century.” Asia Haut. “Barry and Fuseli: Milton, exile and expulsion.” *David Bindman. “The Politics of envy: Blake and Barry.” Stedman, John Gabriel (1744-97) John Barrell. “reform and revolution: James Barry’s Writings §Senior, emily. “‘Perfectly Whole’: Skin and text in John Ga- in the 1790s.” briel Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the liam lenihan. “History Painting and Aesthetics: Barry and Revolted Negroes of Surinam.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 44.1 the Politics of Friendship.” (2010): 39-56. Michael Phillips. “No. 36 castle Street east: A reconstruction of James Barry’s House, Painting and Printmaking Studio, and the Making of The Birth of Pandora.” Index William l. Pressly. “Crowning the Victors at Olympia: The Great room’s Primary Focus.” Blake’s works: America 5-6, 7-8, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 23, 26, 31, 32, 35; annotations 5, Daniel r. Guernsey. “Barry’s Bossuet in Elysium: catholicism 7, 22-23, 25, 28; Book of Los 32; Book of Thel 8, 11, 13, 19, 20, 21, 32; and counter-revolution in the 1790s.” copperplates 35; Descriptive Catalogue 8, 21, 23, 25, 34; Europe 7, 8, David G. c. Allan. “‘A Monument to Perpetuate his Memory’: 11, 13, 19, 21; First Book of Urizen 8, 11, 13, 19, 21, 24, 29, 30; For James Barry’s Adelphi cycle revisited.” Children 8, 11, 32; For the Sexes 8, 11, 19-20; French Revolution 33; Island in the Moon 8, 13, 23, 25, 33; Jerusalem 8, 13, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35; letters 5, 7, 8-9, 20, 22, 25; Marriage 9, 11, 12, 13, 22, 24, 25, 28, cumberland, George (1754–1848) 30, 32, 34; Milton 9, 11, 13, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35; Notebook 10, 34, 35; On Lewina the Maid of Snowdon. A Tale (1793) Homer 11; “Order” of the Songs 9-10, 20; “Pickering Manuscript” 10, A Poem on the Landscapes of Great-Britain (1793) 26, 31; Poetical Sketches 10, 19, 21, 28; Small Book of Designs 24, 26, review 29, 30; Song of Los 11, 13, 22, 29; Songs 5, 9, 10-11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, Anon., “Domestic literature. For the Year 1793,” New Annual 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32; “to the Public” 8; Vala/Four Zoas 11, 13, 26, 29, 33; Visions 8, 11, 13, 20, 21, 26, 29; watermarks 7, 8 Register … for the Year 1793 (1794): 194-277. Illustrations/engravings of/for: “lewina, the Maid of Snowdon, a tale, and a Poem on the Bible 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 34; Blair 13, 14-15, 19, 21, 24, 25, 33; chaucer landscapes of Great Britain, by George cumberland,” are 5, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24; Dante 20, 21, 26; Flaxman 15, 20, 24; Hayley productions of very different merits. The former is simple, 5, 15-16, 20, 31; Malkin 16; Milton 20, 21; rees 16; Remember and occasionally pathetic and interesting, but frequently Me! 16-18, 22; Salzmann 4, 18; Stedman 18; Varley 22; Virgil 18; insipid and unpoetical. The latter, which is far from being Wollstonecraft 18; Young 18-19, 20, 21, 33 faultless in point of diction and rhyme, discovers consider- Apprentice (Thomas Owen) 4, 18, 25 able powers of description, and liveliness of fancy; and shews 20, 24 that the author possesses a sensible, cultivated mind. With residences 5, 25 Voting 4 greater attention to correctness, and to avoid too familiar

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